Or, the ARM ISA has limits to scalability, and incrementally improving the performance without drastically increasing cost or power usage is much harder than it is with AM64 ISA, meaning that Apple got most of the low-hanging fruit with the M1...
Someone who wants to learn really should stay with major or base systems.
If you want easy - Ubuntu
If you want to learn for professional use - Fedora/RedHat (or SUSE if you live in Germany)
If you want to learn the inner workings of a Linux...
argued with so many normies on this the first go around. Completely unnecessary govt meddling and regulation. And as usual we will get more than anyone bargained for.