There is now beta (?) builds of a 64bit raspberry pi os (formerly known as raspbian) available: https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_arm64/images/
Not sure how well it works, but it is a thing now
Not sure how well it works, but it is a thing now
These days, every single major distro has rpi instructions, and 8G of ram is more than some laptops come with. So, its a disservice that they don't just tell people, here are a list of disto's which have been qualified to run on the hardware, pick one, and oh BTW, you can run those OS's on your laptop too.