[kitsunesoba]

Apple went out of their way to add the ability to boot third party operating systems to M-series macs, which the Asahi Linux team has been using to build a Linux distro tailored to M-series Macs.

Asahi Linux is still a work in progress but shockingly usable for its age, and will no doubt be ready to roll by the time the first M-series macs have their support dropped. I’ve read that OpenBSD is bootable on M-series macs too, so that may also be an option.

Additionally, while I don’t think Microsoft will ever take the invitation, Apple has publicly stated they’d welcome an Apple Silicon port of Windows.