Speaking as a Mac M1 users, but not a Linux user (I have played with Asahi, think it's great, but don't need it right now), I think almost no one (or a very sma

Speaking as a Mac M1 users, but not a Linux user (I have played with Asahi, think it's great, but don't need it right now), I think almost no one (or a very small minority of people) buys Mac hardware to run Linux. I think it's the inverse, people buy Apple hardware and then realize Linux is available and want to run it. Yes, I think the general opinion is that Apple's M1 and M2 platforms are superior to Intel, even at the Mac's (supposedly) higher price point. Though MacOS is a complete Unix system, it is still proprietary, and there's nothing wrong with wanting to do your work (or play) on a free OS running on an excellent hardware platform. Asahi is giving people the opportunity to do that. Finally, though I can't speak for the Asahi team, I think also there's an element of "because it's there". Here is a great new hardware platform offering a incredibly difficult challenge to a group of people who live for this kind of thing. Why would they not want to do it?