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Lemme guess: You have a Mac with T2 chip. You need prebuilt ISOs for those Mac models. https://wiki.t2linux.org/
A 2019 with an i5 and a 2012 with an i7. Admittedly I haven’t tinkered much with either but the keyboard and trackpad being completely unresponsive wasn’t a great first foray
The first one has T2. Input devices not working is a known issue, that's why you need custom ISOs. How was your luck with the 2nd one? Older Macs usually run much better with Linux but WiFi and bootloader installation (efibootmgr specifically) may be janky.
Tbh I haven’t tried the older one, but thank you for the advice on the ISO
I’ve got enough ‘advice’ on this thread that I don’t even know which flavor to try and put on the Mac. As some have said it’s a waste of time even installing Linux on a Unix. I just like projects.