You want to look at t2linux.org. There is nothing to circumvent, it's just that some of the drivers aren't upstream yet. NVMe has been upstream for years, so yo

You want to look at t2linux.org. There is nothing to circumvent, it's just that some of the drivers aren't upstream yet. NVMe has been upstream for years, so you won't have any issues doing a vanilla Linux install with an up to date distro, especially on a Mac Mini (the bigger issue is no upstream keyboard support on the T2 laptops). I'm working on Wi-Fi for M1 Macs this week and that particular patch will be useful for T2 Macs too, so hopefully that will be upstream in the near future.