I guess I probably didn't choose the right words and I agree with your experience with Ubuntu.

I have a use-case for audio (including mic) and graphics acceleration in a Linux VM and none of the distros have been as supported on Fusion as I'd like. The older kernel supports audio while the newer (6.x) kernel support graphics.

The pipewire audio fix works in the new kernel for some (like Debian and Fedora) but there's still some lag in the audio.

The HWE kernel 6.2. for Ubuntu 22.04 is the first time I got audio (without input lag) and graphics to work properly, hence my statement. It was mainly for my use-case.

I totally agree that Ubuntu has been treating arm64/aarch64 as an afterthought. It is still required to manually convert a server image to desktop image to reliably boot Ubuntu on Fusion.

A distro I am yet to try is OpenSUSE, I will give it a shot.

Thanks.