Adventurous Mac owners can check out Ubuntu Linux on M1 silicon for themselves, though there are some caveats.

Corellium has successfully run Ubuntu Linux on Apple's M1 Macs, although you'll need a USB drive and some know-how to make it work.

Security researchers at Corellium have ported a version of Linux to the Apple Silicon M1 chip that will ultimately be released under an open-source license.

Need to boot your M-series Mac with an external drive? It's not as easy as it used to be, as it likely requires you purchase new hardware.

Linux has now been successfully ported to run on Apple’s M1 Macs. Corellium, makers of a virtual iPhone, has released a tutorial for getting Ubuntu running on an M1 Mac.

The Asahi Linux project isn’t the only effort to bring Linux to the Apple M1. Thanks to the new Corellium port of Ubuntu, you already can run Linux on the M1 Mac mini.