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This may be a stupid question, but is there any way to overwrite Android with a full-blown desktop Linux distro on an Android smartphone? I looked at a few tutorials, though they only seem to emulate Linux within Android.

So is there any way to fully install Linux as my only smartphone operating system, and if so, how?

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  • In theory yes, in practice no. All the cheap android phones I and most people can afford use binary proprietary drivers for their graphics, for which there are no xorg equivalents. There probably are ways to run a proper linux distro on top of Android, though. Commented Jul 20, 2019 at 2:25

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postmarketOS, is a distribution based on Alpine Linux for phones,

A real Linux distribution for phones and other mobile devices.

https://postmarketos.org

The project is currently in alpha, but it can already boot and run on many devices.

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Yes, one example is the ability to run Ubuntu Phone (aka Ubuntu Touch) on smartphones.

There are also reports of installing Arch Linux on a smartphone.

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