I'm running arch on a MacbookPro13,1. There used to be a really annoying bug with the NVMe controller, that would delay bootup by up to 2 minutes. Luckily that has been fixed in 4.15.2 or so. The only feature I'm really missing is working suspend/resume (wifi works on the 13,1). With kernel 4.16, bluetooth will work out of the box on the 13,3 (13,1 still needs a small patch currently). For out-of-tree drivers, there are AUR packages: webcam: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bcwc-pcie-git/ keyboard/touchpad: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/macbook12-spi-driver-dkms/ Both are working on getting them into mainline. On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 9:25 PM, Jeremy Brown <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey Arch folks, > > I have a work-provided laptop which is a MacBookPro13,3; in other words a > fairly recent MacBook Pro (one of the touch bar ones). I've shrunk the root > partition on it and would like to install Arch on a second partition and use > that as my primary OS. I've been able to do this with previous versions of > MacBook Pros no problem. > > However, doing some research it appears as though installing Linux on this > hardware is difficult and many of the components either require extensive > customization (e.g. building your own drivers) or don't work at all: > > https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux > https://gist.github.com/roadrunner2/1289542a748d9a104e7baec6a92f9cd7 > > Assuming that page is correct audio, wifi, and suspend not working (or barely > working) are going to be dealbreakers for me, I think. I'm going to take a > crack at it in the next few days but wondered if anyone in arch-general had any > success with similar hardware. Is it livable, or is the driver support and > such just not there yet? > > Cheers, > > Jeremy -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" org@fr33z3
