Have you confirmed this? I haven't seen anyone concretely describe the boot policy of the Neo yet (it should be an easy enough check for anyone who has one in-hand).
Like any other Apple Silicon Mac, you can't currently boot into Linux but Apple has native container support that Linux works on [1].
[1]: https://github.com/apple/container
Like any other Apple Silicon Mac, you can't currently boot into Linux but Apple has native container support that Linux works on [1].
[1]: https://github.com/apple/container