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If you’re indicating I load a Linux distro on a MacBook, I did ask about that at the Apple store back in 2012 when I got my first MacBook, and the look on the “geniuses” faces were priceless.

But otherwise no, I’m not interested because of my first point, namely that I want things to consistently work as expected.

Linux support is pretty iffy on the 2015 - 2019 (chiclet keyboard) ones. I tried once, but driver support was the main problem. Things like keyboard/WiFi/trackpad (I forget exactly which) were broken without any straightforward solutions.

No, they run MacOS (or OSX for older versions), a version of Unix. The M1s still run MacOS, just on a different type of processor hardware.

I figure kreetx is referring to bootcamp'd intel Macs running full Linux.

Yup

(Though note that Bootcamp is a macOS app to install Windows only. For linux the process less GUI assisted (but still pretty straight-forward).)