As another user pointed out, the ones with Intel chips work well ie older models (idk the details as I don’t use Apple products)

I do not know of any such occurrence. I would like to know about it

He might’ve graduated years ago. My experience (also from India) was Ubuntu/Mint is the most likely OS you will encounter in academia here. In school, we were taught about OSes (just GUI programs from Windows and Linux). And during engineering where basic programming is taught to all, we were encouraged to use Ubuntu and even our computer lab had Ubuntu or Mint installed on all computers.