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People at postmarketOS is working on Linux for smartphones. They are using Gnome. There is your answer.
Correction, hi postmarketOS dev here, we are using whatever the user wants. We ship Phosh, GNOME Mobile, Plasman Mobile, SXMO, Lomiri. We don't have just one interface.
Ubuntu Touch and postmarketOS use GNOME too.
Ubuntu Touch uses Lomiri (a successor of Unity), not GNOME.
Ubuntu touch uses unity
No, Lomiri. It is a succesor of Unity
there is also Plasma Mobile (I have no experience with either of those).
I was originally thinking more in the direction of classical desktops in the tablet/2-in1 format.
Plasma Mobile exists but let's just say it's not good.
A correction they are using PHOSH, which is a variant of GNOME.
Correction, hi postmarketOS dev here, we are using whatever the user wants. We ship Phosh, GNOME Mobile, Plasman Mobile, SXMO, Lomiri. We don't have just one interface.