Things happen when someone wants to work on them. Running Linux on Apple Silicon machines is a lot more exciting than running Linux on a generic Intel machine with an Apple logo, so there's been a lot more development effort on the former.
You can already get a usable desktop on an M1 Mac, if you really want to. The CPU is fast enough that you don't absolutely need graphics acceleration, and Wifi, USB, and display output all work.
The big missing piece is the GPU, but Alyssa has a fully-custom user-space implementation for macOS that largely works.
You can already get a usable desktop on an M1 Mac, if you really want to. The CPU is fast enough that you don't absolutely need graphics acceleration, and Wifi, USB, and display output all work.
The big missing piece is the GPU, but Alyssa has a fully-custom user-space implementation for macOS that largely works.