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@[email protected] gave you a good link. I had the displeasure of having a MBP for work too and was able to put linux on it following that guide. You'll be able to run pretty much any distro nowadays on it, but there's a good chance not all hardware will work. Not sure I ever got the audio to work, nor the camera. But with an external for both, that was no problem.
I think back then I ran debian (or was it mint? can't remember) with a newer kernel, opensuse tumbleweed, and even tried nixos (which didn't work).
No idea where you're working, but I second @[email protected], try and get them to get you a laptop that supports linux out of the box (OOTB). If they're paying for macs, they should be able to get you really good linux laptop. My recommendation if you're in Europe: get yourself a tuxedo computer e.g TUXEDO Pulse 14 - Gen3 - AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS, 32GB RAM, 3k display, max 11 hours battery life : 1300€ - and customizable
They even have some that can go up to 96GB RAM for 2.1k€! Dunno how much you'd have to pay for a mac with that kind of RAM.
Edit: Just had to look it up and Macbook Pros friggin start at 3k€! What in the everliving fuck??? And to have 96GB of RAM you need to shell out 5k! Bro, ask them to get you a linux laptop. They'd be saving money and you wouldn't waste time trying to make linux work on a piece of shit mac from 5 years ago.
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You guys both make good points, if I can, I will absolutely argue for the upgrade if I can. I've been using the mac with MacOS for a while now, so they'll probably argue it's not a necessity since I'm still not really seeing performance issues on it yet, but I may be able to try.
It may not work at all as they have fairly closed down hardware. Also you may not get firmware updates which is a big security issue.