I'm glad Asahi exists, and I hope that it will become as successful as it can possibly be, but I remember being surprised about it because the founder of Asahi Linux used to viciously complain about the closed parts of the Raspberry Pi hardware on twitter, at the most heated moments comparing them with Apple. I first became aware of him when he shared the barely-obfuscated hardware keys needed to clone the RPi v2 camera hardware (or something). I remember him ranting about how the Raspberry Pi foundation had gone "full Apple" and how we ought to call the Raspberry Pi "the Raspberry iPi."