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> But it isn't, due to the Android approach of piling together unmaintainable vendor junk like gpu driver and sensors on old kernel that doesn't work with FOSS gpu apis

That's not the Android approach, it's just the embedded-on-ARM approach that Android inherited wholesale. Pre-Android Linux mobile/embedded OS's were just as bad. In fact, we're starting to see some improvements. The SoC's used in the latest Google Pixel (3 and 4) phones are getting mainline support in the Linux kernel.



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