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> or any Linux you like

That's not a thing. Apple silicon doesn't use EFI so you need a completely custom ROM to satisfy the boot process, hence Asahi. And Asahi doesn't support M4 and likely won't for a while.

ARM64 support for GUI apps (via flatpak in the Fedora Asahi Remix) is also pretty poor, though your standard fair of CLI apps are present.




It is a thing. Sure, it's not easy. You can't just download the Debian build for M1, but it can be built.

M4 support will come.




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