Working on LineageOS doesn't help you if you can't even install it. Fewer and fewer phones come with unlockable bootloaders these days. The grip is tightening.
>>Telane+(OP)
Yes, but if you are building your own phone hardware to run Linux on it, there is a huge advantage in that Linux flavor being an AOSP fork, since it is already mature.
>>Telane+(OP)
right, but if you can't install a custom android, you can't install anything linux based or anything else for that matter. so that's a different issue entirely.