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Re:Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree by tumblewit on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:15AM (#26747234)
Yeah I guess I should have said old there. The touchbar macbooks are definitely not something that fits this case
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Re:Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree by paxys on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:20AM (#26747260)
Things have been spotty since well before the touchbar. I doubt anyone is running Linux reliably on any Macbook built after like 2014. There are still open issues with keyboard, touchpad, display drivers, brightness, sleep, nvme and lots more.
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Re:Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree by kelnos on Friday April 09, 2021 @03:23AM (#26747593)
Yep. In 2018 I tried to run Linux on a 2016 MacBook Pro, and it was a pain. The keyboard/touchpad weren't supported without an out-of-tree driver, and audio and suspend-to-RAM didn't work at all. I hear things are better with that model now (I gave up in 2019 and got a Dell XPS13): keyboard/touchpad driver has been upstreamed and I believe there are patches to get audio working, but I don't know about suspend.
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Re:Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree by haskal on Friday April 09, 2021 @04:36AM (#26748080)
I run NixOS on Mac on 2015 Macbook Pro Retina, works like a charm. Everything works on KDE.
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Re:Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree by apatheticonion on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:46AM (#26747394)
Even Windows runs like crap on a MacBook - with similar driver issues
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