You could but: - you need to handle booting - this is relatively easy as they use UEFI or coreboot respectively, both of which work fine. Some others using uboo

You could but: - you need to handle booting - this is relatively easy as they use UEFI or coreboot respectively, both of which work fine. Some others using uboot are harder to support as you need to load the device tree definition manually. - you need to have the drivers for the hardware - this is hard Most ARM manufacturers for consumer hardware don't seem to think that working with upstream is a good idea. Intel and AMD actively work with linux developers to provide the drivers, and some other companies provide partial (with closed firmware) or complete documentation so developers can create drivers. On ARM side, some companies are fine while others are refusing to provide documentation: Qualcomm's modems and GPUs and Broadcom's wifi hardware are some examples.