[teux]

I want to believe it will be great but even when apple was x86, linux was barely functional on the modern systems (2018-).

Proprietary drivers for radio/sensors/audio were incredibly hard to get working and the blackbox security module they have made it nearly impossible to boot and use any peripherals. I was following somewhat closely for a long while and outside of hobby hacking, it was never a useable system from what I saw.

Do you know if it’s looking better in that regard for M1? I’ve been out of the loop.

[walterbell]

There are a few positive signs, but of course we won't know for sure until it's done. The Apple Silicon approach involves firmware blobs (not good) with relatively stable interfaces (good for Linux maintainance, after the cost of initial port). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33155585