If you want the in-depth customization that only flashing from the boot loader level allows, you’ll want to prioritize phones that allow that.
Pixel is usually on the top of most people’s heads because even if other phones can have their boot loader unlocked, actual support is a crap shoot.
It’s mostly up to which manufacturers allow boot loader unlocking.
The pixels are somewhat a continuation of the nexus line which were more developer centric.
You can run Windows on the Steam Deck but I’d argue you also introduce a bunch of new problems.
There’s basically no comparison between the bloatware on Samsung and Pixel.
I felt most annoying prompts and notifications with the Pixel were solvable where Samsung is a constant battle.
And then the alarms don’t seem to go off reliably.
It seemed to be just a 5 second wait.
The weird part is that changing user agent to chrome seems to avoid it.
There’s plenty of other options for cloud storage out there.
The issue, especially with Apple devices, is how cleanly they integrate into the device and people’s existing habits.
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No text mode is HDMI with a 3070, the monitor does have HDMI compatibility in the options but it’s off.
The no scaling was displayport, but AMD RX 5700 to a GSync display so that might have been the issue because it did actually work fine with NVIDIA cards.
I tend to get the kind of Linux issues nobody believes.
Currently my installation “works” but none of the text mode boot up stuff displays at all so I have to dig out a spare screen if it gets stuck there.
Another screen I could never get the display scaling to work no matter what I did - I tried swapping cables, editing the resolution manually, different drivers, different distros, everything I could think of but it would always output 640x480 native pixels unscaled as a tiny square in the middle of the screen.
Windows gives me issues but it usually just works with every screen+gpu combination.
One other thing is that none of the third party messaging apps can even use SMS. iOS is designed so that only Apple can use SMS.