Dual booting on MacBook Air M2 Model A2681

I hope this is the correct area to post this, I’m new to both EndeavourOS and Mac/ARM architectures. I believe the model I have is an Intel-based MacBook so I have been having some trouble with bootloading overall. I’ve tried to use rEFInd but was unable to use it fully due to the lack of being able to use the “bless” commands that are on Apple Silicon Macs. Is there a way to dual boot with Endeavour without the use of Parallels? I have been quite stumped on this for sometime so any help is appreciated, thank you!!

Welcome to :enos: ARM. MacBook Air M2 is based on ARM Architecture. M2 is the name of the ARM chip in your MacBook.

As far as I know, there isn’t. We don’t develop support for Apple Arm architecture, none of the Arm devs even have the hardware. The only Distro (that I know of) that supports Apple ARM is Asahi Linux, which is based on Fedora. Developing support for Apple Arm involves creating kernel modules/drivers in which we lack expertise.
Asahi Linux.

Tagging @Pudge to get his input.

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Your reply pretty much said it all. I haven’t spent any time studying this, but as far as I know it comes down to parallels or Asahi.

Pudge

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Thank you for the information and warm welcome! I see, there’s not that many choices for Apple ARM unfortunately but I will look more into both Parallels and Asahi to see which is more comfortable for me to operate with. I appreciate the help on this to finally get it set up. Thank you both! :grin: