Ah yes, the phone where I will have to install some obscure drivers via some console command found on ubuntu forums from a 3 year old thread made by AssBlaster1

Ah yes, the phone where I will have to install some obscure drivers via some console command found on ubuntu forums from a 3 year old thread made by AssBlaster123 just to get microphone to work properly and then end up not having fingerprint scanner working because this particular phone uses Goodix or whatnot. We don't need "real linux" phone, we already have mobile OS based on linux, it's called Android. You can decouple it from Google, companies already do that, it works. Whether an Android phone without Google services is a viable product is another discussion - and IMO the one we should focus on.