I need to preface by saying that I wholeheartedly agree with your overarching point. Everyone should truly own their devices which means at least unlocked bootl

I need to preface by saying that I wholeheartedly agree with your overarching point. Everyone should truly own their devices which means at least unlocked bootloader, full root access. I also agree that vendor customised androids are also frequently annoying. That said I don't really agree with this take: > But why do I need to put termux on a device when it is already running a full-fledged linux? Android is not a full-fledged Linux. It's linux kernel to be sure, but it never pretended to have usual (GNU) userspace. It even uses its own libc. Under this circumstance, I am not sure why it's unusual to have to install an extra package to get a foreign userspace working. It's not particularly different from when you have to use system package manager to install a different shell in your Debian or different libc in Alpine linux e.g. They could go full open source (like AOSP) and this situation wouldn't be any different.