Installed Ubuntu on my 2020 MacBook Air
Unfortunately this is an 8gig RAM model so not great for heavy tasks, but overall it’s been working well.
Initial issues: Suspend (suspend would kick in and upon waking the computer jack up the keyboard and trackpad wouldn’t respond for about 10 to 20 seconds, on-top of losing the ability to connect to WiFi),
WiFi (as a result of suspend WiFi wouldn’t turn on again after waking the computer up so I had to manually turn the NetworkManager on and off again to restart it which fixed the issue),
Bluetooth (Bluetooth connects but is very unstable and cracks a lot),
Camera (Camera doesn’t work, not sure why, I don’t plan on using it so spoilers but I didn’t spend time trying to fix it),
RAM (RAM is limited so running models in Ollama that are to big start causing problems and crashes, but that’s just a result of to little RAM so I’ll go cry about it or something).
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Fixes: Suspend (implemented a script that resolved the issue by cycling the controller for the trackpad and keyboard as well as NetworkManager on wake-up which resolved the issue),
WiFi (Above explained how)
RAM (smaller models unfortunately)
- Bluetooth and Camera I left non-functional since I won’t use either. -
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Experience**:** Pretty good. Wish the T2 chip wasn’t such a pain; I’d probably use a different distro otherwise, but Ubuntu is cool. I could probably switch to another Debian-based distro and carry over the T2-specific firmware/kernel setup, but honestly I’m good. I like Ubuntu enough.