I’m sorry if this sounds like a stupid question but why won’t android just straight up run like Linux distros that almost run on any computer? Why does each model under each manufacturers require separate maintainors seperately? Aren’t they running like almost similar hardware like processors from Qualcomm, mediatek, Exynos, etc? Why hasn’t there been a single android os that is compatible with all the device?
Does that mean that it is basically impossible to replace the hardware in an ARM Computer because of the mismatches?
not impossible, but quite a bit harder than the plug-and-play experience you get with PCI on x86, yes
but this is quite out of my field of expertise already