What is the best way to find out the level of support of MacBookPro14,1 in Fedora 41?
I’m considering a switch from Ubuntu.
GitHub - Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux: State of Linux on the MacBook Pro 2016 & 2017 is probably the most comprehensive source I know of.
Actually, that’s for Linux in general, but support in Fedora should be basically the same as the latest Ubuntu.
Did you get the touchbar working in ubuntu?
From what I have seen and from personal experience, Fedora runs fine on Intel Macs up to the ones introduced with T2 security chips.
Better to test Fedora from a live ISO initially.
I’m guessing you’re not talking about 2016/17 era macbooks - suspend, wifi, sound, touchbar, touchID and so on don’t work, barely work or require dodgy workarounds for most models. The earlier and later ones might be a little better though.
The Asahi people are doing such an impressive job that it’s starting to seem like the ARM macbooks are going to be better supported than the Intel ones.
The model posted by the OP seems to be a generation before the one introduced with Touch Bar and Touch ID.
Suspend is unfortunately an issue with lots of PCs too.
WiFi was an issue with earlier Broadcom drivers (for those we have the RPM Fusion way), but I’m guessing the one used by this model needs the open-source variant already baked into the kernel.
Sound could be an issue according to your link.
Booting into a live session should also give some answers.
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth do work for me out of the box on Ubuntu, for sound to work I have to apply this patch, but it has stopped working after upgrading to 24.10.
What I’m trying to understand is that whether things that work now will continue to work on F41.
See Linux Hardware Database (LHDB) Apple MacBookPro 14.1 “probes” shows many running Fedora 40. The camera appears to be problematic – if the camera is important you may want to consider adding a USB camera.
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I tried to boot from F41 ISO and hardware support seems to be on par with Ubuntu - Wi-Fi, Bluetooth work, but sound doesn’t.
So it looks promising.
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