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Installed latest Mint MATE (based on Ubuntu 22.04) on a MacBook Air 11 2015. Linux has a lot of rough edges on the MacBook Air, definitely not boring, it but works well enough for my needs:

* No fan control out of the box, so CPU overheats after a new minutes. Fixed by installing a 3rd party fan control package.

* Broken sleep. Always wakes up 2-3 seconds after putting to sleep. Fixed by a series of hacks to disable the keyboard and lid while sleeping. Only the Power button is able to wake it up now.

* Display brightness setting lost after sleep. Always wakes up at 100%.

* Webcam does not work. There is no compatible driver from what I understand.

* Two-finger scroll is awful on Linux, compared to the buttery smooth scroll of MacOS.

* Poor battery life compared to MacOS, I estimate about 25% less.

* It can be tricky to figure out how the Mac keys are mapped to normal Linux keys: Alt, Option, Command. Also tricky to figure out how to remap them so that they are more usable on Linux.

>>bxpark+(OP)
Weird, I installed Asahi on my M1 Pro and while the two finger scroll isn't butty smooth as MacOS, it works well enough and already better than in any Thinkpad touchpad.