However good luck getting decent Linux hardware support for any Mac >= 2016 and there is very little (probably zero...) chance of anything other than OSX running on an M1
Same here, but TBH, I am also starting to worry for large linux distros (eg ubuntu).
And there's of course the black box hardware it runs on.
However good luck getting decent Linux hardware support for any Mac >= 2016 and there is very little (probably zero...) chance of anything other than OSX running on an M1