Reviving a Touch Bar MacBook with Fedora Silverblue

Following up on my revival of a MacBook Air with Fedora, I decided to install Silverblue onto my old MacBookPro13,2 (the 2016, T1 Touch Bar model), which I once (somewhat naively) termed my mid-life-crisis laptop. With the benefit of hindsight, I can now finally come to terms with why this particular hardware revision is much maligned in general, and revisiting it was an interesting experience because: I had forgotten how bad the keyboard is The Touch Bar is worse than useless in general, and causes a number of issues in Linux It can’t use modern 5GHz Wi-Fi (well, it can, but this setup doesn’t support WPA3, and probably never will) The battery is somewhat shot It warms up considerably at the slightest provocation It does, however, have an absolutely beautiful 2560x1600 panel that reminds me of the Lenovo Chromebook I had to send back (still sad about that), and four USB-C ports so it’s trivial to keep topped up enough to use as a thin client: MacBook Pro running Fedora Silverblue,…

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