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by dsr_ 3879 days ago
On a Nexus phone, the pathway to unlocking the bootloader (and thus being able to install an alternative OS) is this:

$ fastboot oem unlock

On the vast majority of other Android phones, one must perform a customized attack against your phone in order to unlock the bootloader... and on some phones, that attack has not yet been discovered.