I HAVE BEEN UNFAITHFUL.
For quite awhile now I have been using OCLP on a 2013 i7 MacBook Air 6,1 at home, enjoying every minute of it and very thankful for it. Things began to get a bit squirrley more recently on 3.4.1 and since I use some demanding photo editing apps, etc., I recently decided to get a 2023 M2 Mini...
After settling in with that, yesterday I decided to do a first-time-ever clean wipe of the 2013 MBA with a fresh straight install of 3.4.1. I made the OCLP flash drive on the target MBA before doing the wipe, booted from the flash drive, wiped the internal SSD, partitioned it at this point to allow for a Linux partition (400/100), why not. I did the OCLP Ventura install, no post patches needed after reboot, very nice and easy, no drama.
Then I booted from a KDE Neon flash drive, did the install on the smaller partition, and all went well – except Neon (not entirely unexpectedly) took over what seems to be the shared EFI partition and I lost macOS boot capability.
So I started over and reinstalled Ventura the same way, rebooted and got going again, then removed the Linux partition.
*Please advise how one might dual-boot under these circumstances. Not a big deal, no rush and no need really, but I was just wondering how the two OSs could coexist without too much hassle.
I'm not sure how much I would use the 2013 going forward, and I could just leave Ventura on there (with ongoing updates) for occasional Intel-app compatibility before eventually going full Linux in the future (when macOS moves too far head for OCLP).