mbp-fedora VS dotfiles

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.

I have my own custom install scripts I use for a few programs that aren't easily managed with a package repository. https://github.com/AquaMorph/dotfiles/blob/master/scripts/installers/bitwig-install.sh The end is what would be useful to you. Basically I use alien to convert the .deb file to .rpm and then forcefully install the converted package. I also fix an audio shared library that gave me issues in the past.