Fedora 33 mostly works on a MacBook Pro 14,1 (seriously, there's a comma in the version).

Out of the box, sort of works. But things get a bit flaky without some tweaks. For example:

• Wifi is flaky (you need a karg tweak)
• Without tweaks, your MacBook doesn't go to sleep, it goes comatose.
• Those with a privacy focus will be pleased to know that Facetime HD camera is pretty much unusable.
• Sound needs a KMOD.

Yeah, I have a MacBook Pro....and?

These are a couple of tings that I have found that made my life easier.

# Set fractional DPI for Wayland
gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"

# Disable Typing when using the mouse pad
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad disable-while-typing true

Without tweaks, the sleek Macbook Pro running Linux will be a sleeping beauty. The root cause is that the NVME disk powers down; the device defaults require that you turn on cold-plugging. In the scripts https://github.com/darkmuggle/fedora-mbp-14.1/blob/patronus/files/fixsleep.sh#L2 allows her to wake up, but she's a bit groggy (give her a good 10-20 seconds).

https://github.com/darkmuggle/fedora-mbp-14.1/blob/ patronus/files/on-sleep.service goes a step further any prevented the groggy wake-ups. I found that running modprobe -r thunderbolt fully fixes the problem.

If you are installing with full-disk encryption, you will need to run the following in the live-ISO before you reboot. To do so:

1. Connect to wifi
2. Open up a terminal
3. Run chroot /mnt/sysroot
4. Run the commands below.
5. Reboot

Simply run:

git clone github.com/darkmuggle/fedora-mbp-14.1 fmbp
cd fmbp
make add
make install

The real work comes from the fine folks at:

• https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux
• https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie/
• https://github.com/davidjo/snd_hda_macbookpro

I found this through the tried-and-true method of Googling...this repo is my collection of what works for my MBP.