I have an M1 I use only with Linux. Pain points : no Thunderbolt, no HDMI, battery life is awful. Otherwise it's a very nice machine.
(I'm gonna sell it soon because of the aforementioned pain points)
Windows 7 was a beautifully simple yet versatile OS capable of running on some really weak hardware with little overhead. Windows 11 by comparison is a bloated monster that demands too many resources for mandatory background processes and wants to get its tentacles into every facet of your privacy.
I remember the same kind of discourse for each and every new version of Windows.
But hey, if it can help switching to Linux I won't complain.
There's a whole website dedicated to raising awareness of its danger : https://www.dhmo.org/