It is quite the setup. The Proxmox Server running the minimal Ubuntu VM has my old Sabertooth X79 Motherboard in it from 2012. I think there are close to 25 Docker containers running on it currently.
I use the RPi headlessly for PiHole ad blocking along with torrenting and the occasional Python project.
Sorry it took me so long to get back to you, but I forgot about it and randomly remembered you wanted this as I was about to play Factorio. Such a random thing to remember almost a month later.
Installation was straight forward (I chose the minimal Arch install), but didn’t realize what packages were included… so wifi was non-existant until I found that iwd and networkd were there. Once that was configured, I installed wayland/sway, moved over my dotfiles and have a usable system!
I still need to test audio (I “hear” the headphone jack works) and maybe tweak the scaling / fonts a bit. Battery life is definitely worse, but that just means it can only get better!
I’m surprised Linux works as much as it does for you. I haven’t really followed the progress on getting it to run on M2, but seems like it’s looking really good already. And as you mentioned…probably will improve further.
Yeah - I’m kind of surprised how well it IS working! Compiling a fairly large C++ codebase (scummvm) takes about a minute longer in linux than on mac, Though there may be differences between clang and gcc there too.
That said, it’s a bit of a toy at the moment. I still have my MacOS partition for work stuff or if I want to take advantage of the crazy battery-life.