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mbpfan
Discontinued A simple daemon to control fan speed on all MacBook/MacBook Pros (probably all Apple computers) for Linux Kernel 3 and newer [Moved to: https://github.com/linux-on-mac/mbpfan] (by dgraziotin)
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mbp15-wifi-driver
Scripts to collect or download and install MacBookPro15,2 wifi driver files on Linux.
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snd_hda_macbookpro
Kernel audio driver for Macs with 8409 HDA chip + MAX98706/SSM3515 amps (by egorenar)
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Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC, put Linux on it
Not the OP, but I have a 2015 Macbook Pro and a desktop PC both running Linux. I love Fedora, so that's on the desktop, but I followed online recommendations to put Mint on the Macbook and it seems to run very well. However, I did need to install mbpfan (https://github.com/linux-on-mac/mbpfan) to get more sane power options and this package (https://github.com/patjak/facetimehd) to get the camera working. It runs better than Mac OS, but you'll need to really tweak some power settings to get it to the efficiency of the older Mac versions.
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I just switched to Fedora 39
Install fan control from this repo: https://github.com/linux-on-mac/mbpfan
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8,1 iMac overheating on Linux Mint 21.2
Download mbpfan (zip or tar.gz version are the same, choose one) and extract it wherever you want. Despite the name, it works on any Intel Mac.
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Linux on Mac
Also, you can change fan curves with mbpfancontrol
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Linux on late 2013 MBP
I run my 2013 with the intel gpu kernel blacklisted and the nvidia 470 graphics drivers. The virtual TTYs and wayland don’t work but everything else works fine. For the fan/cpu stuff you can look at https://github.com/linux-on-mac/mbpfan
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Ubuntu 20.04.4 on an old Macbook Pro
Check out mbpfan. Although, overheating on an 360p video sounds very wrong even without mbpfan, I've never had such problems. I suggest disassembling and checking out thermal paste.
- Installed on a late 2014 Mac mini
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Using Linux Mint as Main OS on 2015 Macbook Pro
I am currently using Debian on my MacBook Air. The broadcom wifi card driver is not in the official repository so I had to use an external wifi dongle when first installing the OS. You might also encounter issues with the webcam, so this link might help. I am also using mbpfan to help with heating issues. Other than that, I haven't had any issues.
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Mac Mini 2014 or RPi 4
Free and easy to install: https://github.com/linux-on-mac/mbpfan
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Suggested Raspberry PI
I would also suggest installing mbpfan whenever running non-macOS on Apple hardware.
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linux-on-mac/mbpfan is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of mbpfan is C.
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Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.
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