I am of a certain age where I prefer Desktops. The social costs of smartphones is why Eink has become such an interest.
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All my tech jobs were mainly a mix of internal consultant & admin. So I always needed less hardware, etc. than the majority of my users. I havenāt used Windows since 2018 but if it can still run a browser, Iād be OK.
My M1 MBA sits on a table roughly 20x36 and I spend about 30 minutes a week making sure my backups etc are running. I mainly use its ābigā 13 inch screen in April every year to do my taxes. The rest of the time I use an iPad Pro and an iPhone.
When severe weather threatens my three devices gets stuffed into my storm bag and join me hiding in the downstairs bathroom. I donāt have room for a desktop in there. 
Desktop OSes* is what I meant to say Laptop or Desktop. Currently rocking iPad only right now but I am a teacher, in a grad program and I am missing my Mac.
Whats wild is that Microsoftās actions in the 1990s was to prevent the web replacing native Windows applications. That came to pass for sure.
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I love Linux in principle.
After trying a number of different distros (including Arch, which is a PITA to install), the thing that got frustrating for me is that much of the software I needed was in third-party packages/repos (VirtualBox, for example), and those packages frequently broke upon update of anything else in the OS.
That, and ideological stuff. āThereās no MP3 support because you donāt need MP3s - you should be using Ogg Vorbis.ā And Arch in particular, āpartitioning a disk via the command line isnāt any more difficult than doing it with a GUI.ā Yeahā¦umā¦no. 
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I would have to have a very clear idea as to what apps I absolutely need and then leave the rest up to the web. My knowledge of the Command line is scant at best. I want Waydroid so that I can have a native Apple Music App and TV app when they finally make an Android Apple TV app.
See, Iām a web server adminā¦so Iām actually pretty comfortable with command line stuff.
But I also donāt want to have to troubleshoot third-party C code that wonāt compile because a distro decided to upgrade OpenSSH and now all the dependencies are broken. Especially when what Iām really trying to do is fire up a Windows VM to troubleshoot a client problem.
Iāve found the official ābuntus and Mint to be pretty stable and about as easy to use as macOS and Windows, and their communities to be very friendly and helpful. But other corners of Linux world can be snobbish and/or fanatical.
Linus Torvalds said he was never interested in messing around with the ātechnicalā distros like Arch and Gentoo after spending all day working on the technical details of the kernel. Last I knew he was running Fedora on an Apple Silicon MBA.
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I am torn between either the RaspberryPiOS (Debian offshoot), Ubunutu, Mint or Pop as a possible Distro use. Ubuntu has a mobile counterpart that I would not mind trying out as well. Do you know if any Distro can work on Apple Silicon or does it have to be Asahi Linux?
Asahi is the only one I know of. I believe itās a Fedora remix now.