[tropin]

So, just under the drawer full of Pi's and clones, I have another drawer with mediatek tablets and phones, most of them with a broken screen. It's there any progress out there to be able to install armbian/openwrt/whatever linux on them?

[pmlnr]

Not much, at least not directly. But there's https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/ which is great.

[opan]

postmarketOS is usually leading the way there. I'd check their devices page and see if anyone's got them working yet. Although I think mediatek stuff tends to be harder to support.

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices