T2-Ubuntu VS mbp-fedora

I will be assuming that you downloaded v20.04-5.17.1-1 from https://github.com/marcosfad/mbp-ubuntu/releases/tag/v20.04-5.17.1-1

Hey all, I'm a bit new to Linux and want to learn about this new world as many different may be here. I have a Macbook Pro 2019 16in (Touchbar) and I want to install Ubuntu (I have 22.04 downloaded at this time). I found these instructions on installing Ubuntu to my similar model of laptop https://github.com/marcosfad/mbp-ubuntu. I saw another thread on an apple page and they suggested just installing Ubuntu on a VM instead for stability. I'm wondering what the difference would be for installing it on a VM vs my computer. Does anybody know of the benefits or consequences of this?

No tricks bro, used one of the releases from https://github.com/marcosfad/mbp-ubuntu

I’m wondering if using this guide to dualboot a specific patched version of Ubuntu to work on the newer Mac model I have would be safe security wise with using whonix? Or if I should just use a different machine and get qubes

I had all sorts of issues running every single popular distro (at least in my opinion) like Arch, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Manjaro, Pop, and even FreeBSD but I had 0 luck. Finally, I tried this iso with the patches included but no luck with WiFi.

You’ll want this https://github.com/marcosfad/mbp-ubuntu/releases/tag/v20.04-5.7.19-1 which has drivers

There is an Fedora iso with the kernel already patched with drivers here. https://github.com/mikeeq/mbp-fedora If you go here https://wiki.t2linux.org you’ll find instructions for other distros as well. There’s an Ubuntu kernel (which works in PopOS), Endeavour, Manjaro, also apple keyboard, touchbar, WiFi, audio drivers for whichever distro but you have to do them individually and go through some steps to copy the drivers from your Mac to the EFI, then from there to your Linux install. They made scripts to make it less of a pain. By far the easiest for me was the pre made ISO of Fedora.

This worked on my 2020 Macbook Pro: https://github.com/mikeeq/mbp-fedora

I personally run https://github.com/mikeeq/mbp-fedora on my macbook pro 2019 I still dual boot because as stated in the notes you still need macos around to do certain updates and if the system fails you need it to recover the system. But it works surprisingly well, and Fedora is a solid distro.

You need kernel patches to run linux well on those macs. You’ll probably need to use https://github.com/mikeeq/mbp-fedora/releases/tag/v5.13.12-f34-mbp15

I used this MacBook-ready Fedora version.