I installed EndeavourOS on a 2013 MacBook Air a month ago for a backpack trip. It was light enough to carry around and it was cheap enough I did not worry about it being broken or stolen.
It works fantastically. LibreOffice, Outlook online, Teams, OBS Studio, Distrobox, Docker, IntellijIDEA. I have even played a little Steam on it. The only thing that was not out of the box was the iSight camera and even that was a one line command after install.
The only software that let me down was DaVinci Resolve. The integrated GPU is not supported.
All I did was hold down Option at boot so I could boot off the USB and then I let the installer do the work. Anybody could do it.