AFAICT, The Pinebook Pro can run "normal" distros. Fedora and Manjaro are supported directly, and Armbian has Ubuntu images. It also looks like Arch is somewhat supported.

Now, reliably on the other hand... that's another story. I still have hardware issues surrounding booting, but getting an OS installed isn't an issue anymore.

For Feodra eg https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Fedora_Linu... - seems it's mostly Pinebook and Pi 400 there.

Hmm, I guess Chromebooks with their Debian containers don't count here?

It doesn’t really matter the processor architecture, Apple has never been a good choice for Linux.

Sure you can get it to work sometimes but it’s just not ideal.

There have been some Macbook models that have been very good Linux laptops for their time (if you don't mind the price and kb layout).

And there's been some models that are pretty much nightmares (basically 2016-2020) even years later. I think their point stands. Some have been okay and others near useless.

To clarify, I meant to make a point against the "has never been a good choice" claim. I agree the relative rarity of good Linux Mac models is not ideal, hopefully the current Arm model Linux activity will bring improvement.

It was when they shortly played with MkLinux project.