For people who want to install Ubuntu on MBP14,2 or 14,3 (the new MBPs with four thunderbolt 3 ports) — this[0] might help. (It'll be probably trivial to update

For people who want to install Ubuntu on MBP14,2 or 14,3 (the new MBPs with four thunderbolt 3 ports) — this[0] might help. (It'll be probably trivial to update the article for Ubuntu 20.04 - just ignore the upgrading the kernel parts.) It mentions adding the touchbar, keyboard drivers[1] and fixes for the non-working wifi[2], all without an external keyboard or anything. You can just boot up your Ubuntu virtual machine, execute some commands in the chroot environment & make an bootable ISO. This gist[3] and this GitHub repo[4] might also be worth to check out - although it looks like a bit lagging in information (the wifi fix, added last November isn't reflected yet). This is my command checklist (tweaked from this[0] to match my prefs), might be helpful for someone? ### check if pwd is ~/Download # ask password beforehand sudo -v # mounting iso and copying to current file sudo mkdir -p /mnt/iso sudo mount ubuntu-20.04-desktop-amd64.iso /mnt/iso mkdir customiso rsync -a --exclude=casper/filesystem.squashfs /mnt/iso/ customiso/ sudo unsquashfs /mnt/iso/casper/filesystem.squashfs sudo umount /mnt/iso # chrooting sudo mount --bind /dev squashfs-root/dev/ sudo chroot squashfs-root/ PS1="(chroot) $PS1" LC_ALL=C HOME=/root export PS1 HOME LC_ALL mount -t proc none /proc mount -t sysfs none /sys mount -t devpts none /dev/pts # updating mv /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.bak echo 'nameserver 1.1.1.1' | tee /etc/resolv.conf ### change apt mirror list apt update apt upgrade apt dist-upgrade apt autoremove apt -f install # installing driver apt install git dkms echo -e "\n# macbook12-spi-drivers\napplespi\nappletb\nspi_pxa2xx_platform\nintel_lpss_pci" >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules git clone https://github.com/roadrunner2/macbook12-spi-driver.git /usr/src/applespi-0.1 dkms install -m applespi -v 0.1 cat > /etc/udev/hwdb.d/61-evdev-local.hwdb << 'EOF' # MacBook8,1 (2015), MacBook9,1 (2016), MacBook10,1 (2017) evdev:name:Apple SPI Touchpad:dmi:*:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBook8,1:* evdev:name:Apple SPI Touchpad:dmi:*:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBook9,1:* evdev:name:Apple SPI Touchpad:dmi:*:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBook10,1:* EVDEV_ABS_00=::95 EVDEV_ABS_01=::90 EVDEV_ABS_35=::95 EVDEV_ABS_36=::90 # MacBookPro13,* (Late 2016), MacBookPro14,* (Mid 2017) evdev:name:Apple SPI Touchpad:dmi:*:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro13,1:* evdev:name:Apple SPI Touchpad:dmi:*:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro13,2:* evdev:name:Apple SPI Touchpad:dmi:*:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro14,1:* evdev:name:Apple SPI Touchpad:dmi:*:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro14,2:* EVDEV_ABS_00=::96 EVDEV_ABS_01=::94 EVDEV_ABS_35=::96 EVDEV_ABS_36=::94 evdev:name:Apple SPI Touchpad:dmi:*:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro13,3:* evdev:name:Apple SPI Touchpad:dmi:*:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro14,3:* EVDEV_ABS_00=::96 EVDEV_ABS_01=::95 EVDEV_ABS_35=::96 EVDEV_ABS_36=::95 EOF cat > /etc/udev/hwdb.d/61-libinput-local.hwdb << 'EOF' libinput:name:*Apple SPI Touchpad*:dmi:* LIBINPUT_MODEL_APPLE_TOUCHPAD=1 LIBINPUT_ATTR_KEYBOARD_INTEGRATION=internal LIBINPUT_ATTR_TOUCH_SIZE_RANGE=200:150 LIBINPUT_ATTR_PALM_SIZE_THRESHOLD=1200 EOF ### edit wifi driver(https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193121#c52) # exiting chroot mv /etc/resolv.conf.bak /etc/resolv.conf umount /dev/pts umount /sys umount /proc exit sudo umount squashfs-root/dev/ sudo rm customiso/casper/filesystem.squashfs sudo mksquashfs squashfs-root customiso/casper/filesystem.squashfs cd customiso sudo rm md5sum.txt sudo find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sudo md5sum | grep -Ev "./md5sum.txt|./isolinux/" | sudo tee md5sum.txt cd .. sudo xorriso -as mkisofs -r -V "ubuntu-for-mac" -R -l -o ubuntu-for-mac.iso -c isolinux/boot.cat -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -isohybrid-mbr /usr/lib/ISOLINUX/isohdpfx.bin -eltorito-alt-boot -e boot/grub/efi.img -no-emul-boot -isohybrid-gpt-basdat customiso/ [0]: https://nixaid.com/linux-on-macbookpro/ https://nixaid.com/linux-on-macbookpro/ [1]: https://github.com/roadrunner2/macbook12-spi-driver https://github.com/roadrunner2/macbook12-spi-driver [2]: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193121 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193121 [3]: https://gist.github.com/roadrunner2/1289542a748d9a104e7baec6a92f9cd7 https://gist.github.com/roadrunner2/1289542a748d9a104e7baec6... [4]: https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux