These include Sailfish OS, postmarketOS, Ubuntu Touch, Mobian, etc. They never gained a significant market share/adoption.

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Because they are not ready and dual-booting between Linux and Android is not possible/practical.

We expect phones to do way more than we expected from PCs when Linux was started. Linux phones basically need to become feature-complete while almost no one is using them as daily drivers. On top o that hardware keeps changing and is hard to work with. This makes the project extremely difficult.

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