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Asahi Fedora with Gnome works fine on my M2.

Supported entirely on the back of one over worked, unpaid savant against the richest most anti-consumer company to have ever existed is not what I'd call 'fine' but YMMV.

https://asahilinux.org/about/ quite a few more people

also not that different from the state of support for other new devices out there. Apple's GPU architecture is also quite friendly to the project [1], as is the system security model, which is less janky than UEFI keys on PCs.

[1] https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/

Or, they could be completely open and not require a once in a lifetime dream team just to use the hardware they paid for.

Sure, but uh is there any OEM laptop vendor out there that actually provided support and/or wrote drivers for Linux? Seems to me like they all rely on third parties doing the work.

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