Because thats the very point of wanting to use a linux pc or phone, to escape the swamps of user hostile evil garbage. A computer is a computer is a computer.

Because thats the very point of wanting to use a linux pc or phone, to escape the swamps of user hostile evil garbage. A computer is a computer is a computer. If there weren't artificially constructed restrictions (and boy do they work hard to create these restrictions: millions of lines of code, developing encryption algorithms, etc) anything could run on anything (if the hardware exists, and in this light phones and laptops have all the required hardware).