I really want to run wayland but there are still some missing bits required for my workflow. Of particular importance to me, the ability to connect to RustDesk auto-launched on a headless server, and clipboard sharing in DeskFlow. My understanding is that these are still broken only because the devs are still waiting for wayland back-end additions to be implemented.

I’m all for wayland, but they need to catch up first.

Not quite the same actually; mine’s the mid-2012 MBP with a more generic Intel GPU. Yours is slightly better, but that Nvidia hardware is sometimes harder to drive properly on Linux. Bazzite should make that a breeze for you tho.

I run boring, stable Debian on mine, but I have plentry of experience adding the non-free (not foss) drivers not included in the core distro. For gaming with lots of native hardware support right out of the gate, Bazzite is really popular.

No matter which distro you settle on, see if you can install the ‘linux-headers-generic’ package to avoid broadcom wifi issues after every kernel update.

afaik airtags are apple-proprietary, so someone would need to reverse-engineer them first. that’s probably not a small ask. i haven’t personally looked into it though, so here’s hoping! 🤞