Why would that be so hard you ask? Doesn t Linux run on almost every processor in the world from 80386s to IBM s390x to SPARC? Hasn t Linux been running on the ARM family since 1995? Yes and yes. But, in earlier cases, Linux developers had access to the chip s firmware, microcode, and documentation. That s not the case with the M1.
Torvalds would love to run Linux on these next-generation Macs. I ve been waiting for an ARM laptop that can run Linux for a long time. The new Air would be almost perfect, except for the OS. And I don t have the time to tinker with it, or the inclination to fight companies that don t want to help.