No, they’re really not. You can install a terminal emulator on your Android device and LARP to your hearts content and even run a full-fledged GNU DE but it will not and cannot replace a proper PC. No serious work is done on a Smartphone and never will be done on a Smartphone. If you want to make such a device more proper for these tasks then you’ll essentially be turning it into a computer anyways. It’s called market segmentation. For some reason Android system designers don’t understand this concept. Apple does.
Why do phones suck so much nowadays?
You want a phone that does less for no reason, then.
I want a phone with a decent user experience and Android doesn't provide that because it's designed by LARPs
No, you want a phone that artificially limits what it can be used for. It has a processor like any other computer, hell, it even runs the same kernel as many proper computers, and most FOSS software will run on ARM as well. Yet it should be capable of less because muh user experience, which could be changed to your liking anyways.
It's streamlining the experience and if you don't find value in that, then fine, continue on with your bloated trash trying to be a computer when it actually isn't and will never replace a real computer. You realize Apple can easily just give us pure Mac OS on their iShits right? They don't because they realize it wouldn't make any fucking sense for the device it's on. Apple actually respects the PC industry more than Androidshit makers do. They actually realize what makes a PC a PC and a Smartphone a Smartphone. Everything they;re "limiting" is completely superfluous
It already is a fucking computer, running the same kernel to boot. The reason they don't do that is because it would make it slightly more difficult for people like you to run Candy Crush and post your dinner on Instagram. A highly portable computer is useful and so is a phone. My phone is already a highly portable computer. There is no good reason it should be a software walled garden like you defend so hard.
Your phone is a portable computer that's limited by its trashy form factor. Get a fucking proper portable computer like a GPD Win
Actually, if somebody made a smartphone that ran Windows or even X11 applications that integrated with the phone's window management system, it would become a cult classic overnight.
The only differences Android has with iOS right now are just having a user facing filesystem, allowing you to use two apps at once and installing your own apks. The modular nature also allows to remove most of Google's telemetry pretty easily too, unlike in iOS I imagine. Woohoo, I can't handle so much freedom. They're pretty much the same except Apple locks you in just a little bit more, and Android spies on you just a little bit more.
No, it wouldn't, because Microsoft already fucking tried that and it didn't work. You don't think handset makers haven't already thought of doing this? I'm sick of LARPs pretending they know more than billion dollar handset makers. A Smartphone isn't a computer, it's a smartphone. I don't care what programs you can run on it or what kernel it runs. I bet you can hack your router to play Doom but you wouldn't want it to replace your desktop, even if it "hurrr wuns da same cornall!"
A GPD Win is a 5.5" machine. Make it a slider, add text, calling, mobile data and a camera and suddenly it would be a LARP phone that would suck and nobody should buy.