Very nice that it's being supported, but I think the general consensus among MacBook owners was that it was mainly a sales gimmick and not actually that useful? With opinion divided, of course. I can imagine it would be handy for specific apps.

[–] watty@lemm.ee 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have a couple touch bar macs, and the touch bar is fine.

However, I installed Ubuntu on one of my touch bar macs. The keyboard has no physical escape key; that would be on the touch bar. So, my Ubuntu touch bar Mac now has no escape key, which is a bit problematic, so having a fix for that would be cool.

It is not a big deal for me, since I'm just using it as a server, but it could be a deal breaker for using a touch bar Mac with Linux as a PC.

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I never used a MacBook but I map caps lock to Esc on every machine I own.

[–] watty@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah, that's a good workaround.

Does that work pre-os boot? I had to boot my Linux Mac into safe mode, and the way to do that is to press the escape key during boot. I had to plug in an external keyboard to do it.

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

No, it is an OS application that handles if