I'm comparing it more to the state of Linux on PC in the '90s and early '00s, when most vendors didn't care about Linux unless you were buying a server. Getting

I'm comparing it more to the state of Linux on PC in the '90s and early '00s, when most vendors didn't care about Linux unless you were buying a server. Getting Linux running on a laptop back then was often a mess of hacky reverse engineered drivers, sometimes with incomplete or missing functionality. Of course what Asahi Linux has undertaken still feels like a bigger and more impressive task, I'm just saying that this kind of work is not entirely unprecedented. The current Linux ecosystem on Apple Silicon is more comparable to that of the PC Linux ecosystem from 25 years ago than from today.