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> but this is why phones maybe shouldn't ship with a working OS anyways and make the user supply it instead

Do you believe this is something most people would want as a product experience, or something most people would be capable of doing?

If it were the rule across the board, they’d make it easy and pleasant.

Most of these SoCs can boot from SDcards so you'd probably buy a phone+boot disk at the same time.

I really am not sure most anybody would want to deal with that. Beyond the hassle I’m not sure many people would know what to do