Unsure why you'd be a condescending person about this. Why not?
MacBooks made great Linux machines for many years before the bad times started. And hopefully will again some day!
Microsoft for years tried to act like a good guy with Secure Boot standards that promised systems would remain general purpose computers. If Microsoft obeys it's own standards, that should be the case here too! If not, how can we expect other vendors to provide the general purpose computing systems Microsoft has promised to keep available, as they locked down the boot chain?
Some DevOps guys I know are running on Macbook M2 a Gentoo musl+llvm+openrc userland on a Linux that has Asahi patches and https://grsecurity.net patches.
The only "downside" is no Windows VMs, but they don't seem to care about that.
MacBooks made great Linux machines for many years before the bad times started. And hopefully will again some day!
Microsoft for years tried to act like a good guy with Secure Boot standards that promised systems would remain general purpose computers. If Microsoft obeys it's own standards, that should be the case here too! If not, how can we expect other vendors to provide the general purpose computing systems Microsoft has promised to keep available, as they locked down the boot chain?