I'll never understand this brand loyalism/consumer mentality, and to what lengths Apple folks will go to promote, justify, and defend their purchase decisions.
This sounds like a really outdated opinion about Linux.
If you make a little effort selecting decently supported hardware, everything should work out of the box.
I actually use Linux (NixOS) because for my particular usecases, maintenance burden is lower than macOS.
These include the kernel and kernel modules such as drivers, which was the OP's complaint.
If you want to go outside the walled garden of apple, even windows is better. Old software, incompatible software, weird software? Nope. USB->rs232? Good luck finding that kext, but it just works on linux, and the cd in the box has the windows drivers. Some weird vpn setup? Good luck. Need a non standard hotspot setup with wpa enterprise? Good luck.
So yes... if you just need a browser, sure,.... if you need anything more, as many people here do, then macs might not be the best or most flexible choice.
I’ve honestly got no idea what things are like in this space post-ARM-transition. I don’t really care, either. Historically though, there have been enough people claiming that the hardware quality of a MacBook is so good that it’s worth buying one just to run Linux on it, for it to be considered a ‘serious option’.
Are you sure that “promote, justify, and defend their purchase decisions” isn’t just code for “liking something that I don’t like”?
The undertones of this mentality are so gross and elitist.
There's also some individual differences, i.e. from what I've heard you won't ever be able to run something like the Xen Hypervisor as Apple didn't fully implement the Arm spec s.t. some opcodes are missing.