The Asahi team claims that Apple does not share needed details, so they are doing their best to reverse engineer what they need to make Asahi Linux on M1 silicon work.

No, apple has nothing to do with asahi. The architecture is just very different and needs a lot of work to get things working 

m00ninite

Is it Apple holding it back?

Linux distros have been the only way to make Mac laptops functional imo 
(Sys admin perspective)

kman2140

bitcoin

TailsOS - recommended laptop for running an existing Tails USB installation?

There's been a ton of work being done to get Linux running on M1 macs. Asahi Linux is quite far along now 