Introducing the next generation of Mac

Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by Matthias1 on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @04:16PM (#25052038)

I have a MacBookPro15,2 (2019, with T2), on which I duel boot Arch Linux. It is perfectly usable. The hardware support is not great. In particular, resuming from suspend is very slow, and I haven't gotten the built-in mic to work. And getting the system to work did require using a patched Linux kernel installed from Github. So not easy, but possible.

Your claims about "dismal then and only got worse" are unfounded. The repository you refer to is still active. https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux If anything, activity has slowed down in these threads because it was figured out how to make it work.

Even among people who run Linux on these MacBooks, the general recommendation is to keep a macOS partition around for stability. Some of the value you get from any Apple computer is in the software. If you intend on instantly installing Linux or Windows as your only OS, this probably isn't the computer for you. But if you want to or have to use Linux sometimes, these T2-chip Macs can do it.

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by OJFord on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @06:38PM (#25053608)

I was referring to the hardware support, not the (stellar) efforts of Dunedan and contributors!

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by michaelmrose on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @10:06PM (#25055091)

Am I wrong to think the T2 means Linux can't access the built in hard drive and you are dual booting from an external drive?

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by Matthias1 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:17PM (#25073691)

Yes. There’s nothing preventing me from accessing the internal SSD.

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