You've been downvoted but I agree. We've had a decade of mainstream Linux based smartphones and it sucks. Locked bootloaders, bloatware, proprietary hardware

You've been downvoted but I agree. We've had a decade of mainstream Linux based smartphones and it sucks. Locked bootloaders, bloatware, proprietary hardware drivers that don't get updates... this is what mainstream Linux usage looks like. "Year of the Linux Desktop" makes people daydream about a world in which everybody is a console cowboy using and loving FOSS software. That's what I used to believe in, but Android convinced me that's a fantasy. If Linux ever won the desktop it would be a pyrrhic victory, like Linux 'winning' smartphones with Android or DVRs with Tivo. Software for the masses would still be locked down proprietary trash, no matter what kernel was used.