I used fedora for a couple years on an Intel MacBook Air I found in the ewaste bin.

The camera was the only thing to give me any problems and they were easily fixed.

I spent a lot of time customizing it so that the Mac key combos would work but ultimately gave up, but I learned of a new distro that seems to do a better job at mimicing the Mac ui including the keyboard and I’d be curious to try in your shoes.