I have talked to the ethical computing initiative folks at zulip. I hope that it receives some traction, my understanding (I can be totally wrong, I usually am) is that they are more focused on raising awareness on hardware which can be expensive right now, but by having consumers in the first place, it helps bring other players to create cheaper options and thus even more people, creating a good snowball effect.

I do sort of believe that there is a lack of freedom in how phones are developed as compared to computers in how hard it is to say run pure linux on most phones (if not down-right impossible on most)

I know people say that Linux adoption on Computers is low, but to be honest, Installing Linux itself is one of the most straight forward parts without much lock-in atleast on most computers I use (Except the mac ecosystem like macbooks where I feel like some work is being done too but that feels a bit complicated to me)

One of the benefits of Linux is that you expose yourself to open source philosophy and then you see it everywhere and you seek it everywhere. I remember just learning about alternativeto and then finding all open source alternatives of things too. It feels nice to know about open source and searching it.

A lot of these is connected in a way and I hope that ethical computing initiative helps some people chose their devices in such manner.