Here is Solus ran on Macbook Pro 8,2 with dead GPU.
minh@solus-on-mac ~ $ inxi -Fz
System:
Host: solus-on-mac Kernel: 4.20.10-111.current x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Budgie 10.5 Distro: Solus 3.9999
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBookPro8,2 v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Apple model: Mac-94245A3940C91C80 v: MacBookPro8,2 serial: <filter>
UEFI: Apple v: MBP81.88Z.004D.B00.1708080655 date: 08/08/17
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 29.0 Wh condition: 65.0/75.2 Wh (86%)
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-2760QM bits: 64 type: MT MCP
L2 cache: 6144 KiB
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800
3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 801 8: 799
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: AMD Whistler [Radeon HD 6730M/6770M/7690M XT] driver: N/A
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.3 driver: intel
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1440x900~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Sandybridge Mobile v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.3
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: AMD Turks HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500/6600 / 6700M Series]
driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.20.10-111.current
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet
PCIe
driver: tg3
IF: enp2s0f0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n driver: wl
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 415.37 GiB (35.7%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD10SPZX-00Z10T0
size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 47.81 GiB used: 7.04 GiB (14.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1
ID-2: /home size: 202.69 GiB used: 21.19 GiB (10.5%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sdb3
ID-3: swap-1 size: 4.88 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb4
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 67.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 221 Uptime: 24m Memory: 9.67 GiB used: 1.30 GiB (13.5%)
Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.32
Everything is good except scrolling with 2 fingers is not smooth like MacOS, battery is shorter, and fan control with mbpfan may not correct