alt Hacker NewsWell then he is missing my point. Which may mean I was unclear, or course.
My point was that "Linux on Mobile" seems to be mentioned a lot when talking about an alternative to evil BigTech. The thing is, if you want to fork something and make it a modern mobile OS, you may as well just fork Android and go from there. Because Android is open source and already has billions of apps.
Microsoft didn't make an open source system, I think? I had never heard of WebOS, so I'd be open to it, but the fact is that the "Linux on Mobile" crowd is more into Alpine or Debian running on a mobile. Which is far from a modern mobile OS.
I totally respect the Linux on Mobile projects, they do a lot of cool stuff. But I don't see that being a serious alternative to modern mobile OSes anytime soon.
It’s just a question of funding. Ubuntu made a push for mobile years ago. They put up a phone on Indiegogo, but it didn’t hit its funding goal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edge
This is what their Unity Desktop was for as well. A desktop environment that had a consistent design language from desktop to mobile.
The remnants of all of this are still kicking around, I think the community still maintains the phone OS, but without the weight of Canonical really pushing it, and a phone shipping with the OS pre-installed, it won’t get as far.