After the just-after-warranty-expired demise of my Thinkpad T13s - an ARM on Windows laptop - I was in the market for something that gave anywhere near the absolutely astounding battery life that I got used to, hauling it around on several flights.
Costco had an M2 MacBook Air on sale, so I cross referenced the Asahi Linux Feature Support wiki page and found out that everything except the webcam, speakers, and microphones worked at least a little bit as of late July 2023.
So I ordered it and decided to get GNOME and my primarily Go/Python/JavaScript-based development workflow running. My installation saga - detailing various solutions for core functionality, pet peeves, and various apps - begins after the break.