I was very happy with Debian on my MacBook Air roughly 10 years ago. I am a non-GUI type of guy, so I might have missed quibbles that other people had around that.

I ran Debian on my Pismo PowerBook from 2000-2008, because it was the only thing that could reliably suspend/resume. Switched to ThinkPads because Linux suspend/resume on x86 had gotten pretty reliable by then.

I mean I ran ubuntu on my mac natively back 5 years ago. Ran pretty well!

Even in a alpha state Asahi works pretty well in my limited experience so I’m very optimistic for the future.

Also very excited about the progress Asahi is making. I did technically live your dream though in 2003 with YDL on my G3 iBook. It was… ok.

Ran ubuntu on mac mini's for a big chunk of the previous decade