{"id":4684,"date":"2020-05-22T17:15:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T14:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.systemcodegeeks.com\/?p=4684"},"modified":"2021-12-02T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T13:14:00","slug":"ubuntu-20-04-on-a-2015-15-macbook-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemcodegeeks.com\/linux\/ubuntu-20-04-on-a-2015-15-macbook-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 20.04 on a 2015 15&#8243; MacBook Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I decided to give Ubuntu 20.04 a try on my 2015 15&#8243; MacBook Pro. I didn&#8217;t actually install it. I just live booted from a USB thumb drive which was enough to try out everything I wanted. In summary, it&#8217;s not perfect, and issues with my camera would prevent me from switching, but given the right hardware, I think it&#8217;s a really viable option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first thing I wanted to try was what would happen if I plugged in a non-HiDPI screen given that my laptop has a HiDPI screen. Without subpixel scaling, whatever scale rate I picked for one screen would apply to the other. However, once I turned on sub-pixel scaling, I was able to pick different scale rates for the internal and external displays. That looked ok. I tried plugging in and unplugging multiple times, and it didn&#8217;t crash. I doubt it&#8217;d work with my Thunderbolt display at work, but it worked fine for my HDMI displays at home. I even plugged it into my TV, and it stuck to the 100% scaling I picked for the other monitor, so it looked ok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemcodegeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-19-01-16-55-1-1024x640.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4687\" width=\"768\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.systemcodegeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-19-01-16-55-1-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.systemcodegeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-19-01-16-55-1-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.systemcodegeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-19-01-16-55-1-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/www.systemcodegeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-19-01-16-55-1-1536x960.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.systemcodegeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-19-01-16-55-1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The next thing I did was install Zoom, since I&#8217;m using that a lot during this COVID-19 quarantine. Trying to download and install the .deb from the website didn&#8217;t work because of unmet dependencies. However, installing the snap package using Ubuntu Software worked just fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point, I should note that WiFi and sound worked out of the box. That was a relief!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The microphone worked in Zoom for the first meeting, but not for subsequent meetings. Restarting Zoom fixed the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My screen brightness keeps changing based on changes to the ambient lighting. This happens in macOS too, but somehow there it&#8217;s a lot less noticeable and disruptive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The camera did not work by default. By following <a href=\"https:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/990218\/camera-not-working-on-macbook-pro\">these instructions<\/a>, I was able to get the camera working, even in Zoom, but the picture quality was grainy \/ pixelated. The picture quality was similarly bad in Cheese, suggesting a driver problem. Observe:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemcodegeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-19-00-10-48-1-924x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4689\" width=\"693\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.systemcodegeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-19-00-10-48-1-924x1024.png 924w, https:\/\/www.systemcodegeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-19-00-10-48-1-271x300.png 271w, https:\/\/www.systemcodegeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-19-00-10-48-1-768x851.png 768w, https:\/\/www.systemcodegeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-19-00-10-48-1-1386x1536.png 1386w, https:\/\/www.systemcodegeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-19-00-10-48-1.png 1408w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/patjak\/bcwc_pcie\/wiki\">this page<\/a>, it says, &#8220;The driver will complain about 1871_01XX.dat (or similarly named) files missing. This error can be ignored. The .dat files contains sensor calibration settings that will improve image quality. The error looks something like this: Direct firmware load for facetimehd\/1871_01XX.dat failed with error -2. Ignore it.&#8221; I&#8217;m guessing that&#8217;s the problem. I found a guide <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/patjak\/bcwc_pcie\/wiki\/Extracting-the-sensor-calibration-files\">here<\/a> in order to install those files. I reloaded the driver. I <i>think<\/i> I did everything I was supposed to do, but it didn&#8217;t seem to fix the issue. The documentation for the driver says that it&#8217;s experimental :-\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along the way, I had to &#8220;enable the multiverse&#8221; in order to install unrar. I told my kids about it, but they told me that that doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m an Avenger. Hmm, maybe I have to switch to Arch :-\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing I wouldn&#8217;t have this problem if I were using hardware with better support. On the other hand, my son said he was having the same problem with his 2007 Thinkpad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just to check that everything else was sort of behaving, I tried YouTube. No problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next up, because my wife and I have been watching &#8220;Once Upon a Time&#8221; on Netflix together, I decided to give Netflix a try using the builtin browser, Firefox. It asked for permission to enable DRM. I said yes. But, then Netflix didn&#8217;t actually work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemcodegeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-19-00-17-52-1-1024x640.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4691\" width=\"768\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.systemcodegeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-19-00-17-52-1-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.systemcodegeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-19-00-17-52-1-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.systemcodegeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-19-00-17-52-1-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/www.systemcodegeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-19-00-17-52-1-1536x960.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.systemcodegeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-19-00-17-52-1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Switching to Chrome fixed the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess now is the time I cop to the fact that I actually <i>prefer<\/i> the hotkeys in macOS. The way the command key works is generally more consistent, even in the terminal, and I really like the built-in Emacs hotkeys that work pretty much everywhere&#8211;I have those built into my fingers even though I&#8217;m not an Emacs guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last few times I&#8217;ve used Linux on the desktop, I ran into other problems such as the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s no Linux version of Backup and Sync from Google. The last time I tried it, the built in support for Google Drive was not very good. In the past, I tried <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insynchq.com\/i\/google-drive-linux\">Insync<\/a> which worked pretty well, minus the fact that it didn&#8217;t know how to deal with my HiDPI screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chrome Canary isn&#8217;t available for Linux. That&#8217;s not <i>that<\/i> big of a deal most of the time, but usually the coolest DevTools toys come to Canary first and might not make it to the stable version for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing that the magic that is iTerm2 + tmux -CC doesn&#8217;t work in Linux. If you don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m talking about, Google for it. It&#8217;s amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dropbox works pretty well on Ubuntu; not so much for other distros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IntelliJ just doesn&#8217;t look as good on Linux as it does on a Mac. But, it does work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have an iPhone, it&#8217;s really nice to be able to type normal text messages on macOS. Yeah, I know, Apple is just being Apple, and things are nice, but it&#8217;s still a walled garden. Whatever&#8211;it&#8217;s still nice, and I would miss it in Linux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thankfully things like Slack, VS Code, Signal, and Typora <i>just work<\/i> these days because they&#8217;re Electron apps. It sucks to think of how much this is eating up in terms of system resources, but it&#8217;s nice that they at least work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I wanted to figure out if it was viable for me to switch to Ubuntu. I think the answer is yes, but not with this Facetime camera. I&#8217;ll stick to using macOS and running Linux in a VM using VMware Fusion. By the way, I really like VMware Fusion, and things like Kali Linux should be run in a VM anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also PCMag&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/products\/windows-vs-macos-vs-chrome-os-vs-ubuntu-linux-which-operating-system-reigns\">Windows vs. MacOS vs. Chrome OS vs. Ubuntu Linux: Which Operating System Reigns Supreme?<\/a> Don&#8217;t worry about the click-baity title. It&#8217;s actually pretty good. Perhaps it might not tell you anything revolutionary or new, but it&#8217;s a solid, well-balanced look at the four OSs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"attribution\">\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>Published on System Code Geeks with permission by Shannon Behrens, partner at our <a href=\"\/\/www.systemcodegeeks.com\/join-us\/scg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SCG program<\/a>. See the original article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jjinux.com\/2020\/05\/ubuntu-2004-on-2015-15-macbook-pro.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ubuntu 20.04 on a 2015 15&#8243; MacBook Pro<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Opinions expressed by System Code Geeks contributors are their own.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to give Ubuntu 20.04 a try on my 2015 15&#8243; MacBook Pro. I didn&#8217;t actually install it. I just live booted from a USB thumb drive which was enough to try out everything I wanted. 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