#t2linux — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #t2linux, aggregated by home.social.
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For grins and giggles, I wanted to try Rocky Linux 10 on there, since I had the ISO images for the GNOME and KDE Plasma workstation installers, but the MacBook crashed hard and required a forceful power off.
I didn't have time to troubleshoot that, since I did that during my lunch break.
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Since I had trouble booting a Debian 13 ISO on my 2019 MacBook Pro laptop while trying out t2linux on it, I decided to try imaging a USB drive with the same ISO.
I was able to boot into the installer by selecting the second of three "EFI Boot" options that appeared next to the regular boot option.
Trying the first one for the USB drive would cause the MacBook to into Recovery mode, say that it needed a software update to proceed to boot, but does the same thing over and over again.
Using a USB hub with wired Ethernet and an external keyboard/trackpad, I was able to get through the install and rebooted the laptop. I logged into GNOME, installed the firmware package, then installed the t2linux packages. On reboot, Debian would boot up but then hang with a black screen trying to bring up the graphical interface.
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I've documented my experience of installing and running Fedora 43 on a pair of Intel-based MacBook laptops with the Apple T2 security chip.
Blog Post: Installing and Using Fedora on Apple MacBooks with T2 Security Chips
https://linhpham.org/blog/2026/installing-using-fedora-apple-macbooks-with-t2/
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I'm starting to put into words my experiences with installing and using Fedora 43 + t2linux on a 2018 MacBook Air and a 2019 MacBook Pro, both with Apple's lovely T2 security chip.
It'll probably be a day or so before I'll be ready to publish it.
Thankfully, I took quite a few notes of my steps, took various screenshots and some of the troubleshooting steps I attempted to get some things to work.
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I think this is the first time where the Touch Bar actually came up when running Linux directly on any of my Intel MacBook Pro laptops. 🙌🏼
First attempt at installing Fedora 43 then the t2linux kernel and packages didn't do the trick. This is my second attempt after trying to see if Debian would work (answer: nope).
Now, I hope installing updates does break it.
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I gotta say, after getting Fedora 43 + t2linux up and running on a 2018 MacBook Air (which I snagged from my mom after she got a new laptop), I kind of like having it as a laptop at my chair compared to the hot and heavy behemoth that is my Framework Laptop 16 (also running Fedora 43).
Sure, the 2018 MBA is a bit sluggish and, like the MacBook Neo, limited with its 8 GB of RAM, but it's still more than good enough to watch videos on YouTube and Nebula, do a little bit of coding, note taking and maybe even editing some audio with Audacity.
I've used a 2016 MacBook Pro with a butterfly keyboard for some time, so I'm kind of used to the keyboard on this MBA.
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Finally it's there! I'll be having a look at this later today.
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Zum Thema Linux auf einem Mac: Alles nicht so richtig erquicklich. Gnome scheint die einzig wirklich gangbare Lösung zu sein, damit die Grundfunktionen stabil laufen. Was ich erkannt habe: Gnome verhält sich zum Linux-Unterbau etwa so wie MacOS zum BSD-Unterbau. D.h. ohne Gnome ist das alles ziemlich blankes Metall.
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Weil sonst schon fast alles in der eigenen Datenhoheit liegt: "altes" Macbook aus 2019 mit Linux für die selbstbestimmte Zukunft fit machen. Nicht trivial, trotz so viele guter Distributionen. Out-of-the-box gehen Tastatur, Trackpad und WLAN leider nicht. Wichtig scheint, eine T2-Chip geeignete Distro zu verwenden. 3. Versuch läuft.
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The most up to date (according to Repology) Linux distro T2 Linux (https://t2linux.com/) will come out with a prosumer image before the end of this year. It will be KDE based and Rene Rebe and his team are doing a total cleanup of the code. Having done a 1000 hours already. It is so much fun to watch him. What a dedication!
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Thinking of installing Linux on my 2018 Macbook Air, since its performance has just become sluggish with the latest MacOS updates (and I can't update past Sonoma). Considering #EndeavourOS, not sure though.
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So a USB hub (not Thunderbolt) and an Ethernet adapter are essential.
I am grateful to all the #t2linux volunteer developers. I finally have Fedora working natively on my legacy Intel-based Mac.
I merely suggest that devs be more conscious and/or transparent going forward, about the need for Ethernet, external keyboard, external mouse, and non-Thunderbolt USB hub.
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Any tricks to getting #linux installed on my iMac Pro? (Dual-boot, VM compute is terrible.) Tried a couple of installers, but they reboot after select Try/Install.
Nothing on t2linux.org that helps.
