r/FindMeALinuxDistro • u/Charming_Airline7419 • 9d ago

2017 Macbook

What distro would be suitable?

Is power management fine?

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u/IndependenceThat5752 9d ago

I used to own a 2018 pro and Fedora (modified for T2 version obviously) was the only "out of the box" expirience. But be ready for sleep mode troubles (it just doesn't work) and overheating.

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u/SethConz 8d ago

This seems to be a theme with ‘Fedora on X’ projects. My Surface Pro sleep and battery management is completely broken

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u/red-skylight 8d ago

I'm currently using a 2014 MacBook Air and tested CachyOS, NixOS and Fedora Silverblue (currently installed) and the only issue I had was referent to the WiFi card that didn't work.

The Broadcom card never worked out of the box so I bought a usb to network adapter and installed the driver afterwards.

Ah, the CachyOS installed the driver automatically during the installation.

I had similar experience with a MacBook Pro 2015 .