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Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid
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They exist. People just don't buy them. But there is a Ubuntu phone port you can install on your phone as an alternative to android.
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/10762/status-update-on-the-next-noble-based-ubuntu-touch-release-february-2025
But yeah it can get complicated like any Linux community project and isn't at all mainstream.
People don't buy them because they don't fucking work.