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The machine is fully supported by Mint, but because it's a non-free firmware driver, you will need to add either an ethernet cable, or a usb-to-ethernet adapter, or you could tether from your phone. Then you can install either the b43, or the wl driver (depends which chipset you have), and then wifi and bluetooth are going to work like a charm. I had to do the same on my mac mini. Apple uses broadcom chips that don't have full open source bits, so they're not part of the live ISO. You'll first need to find another way to get to the internet, and then fetch the right files.
I got internet by tethering my phone. After that I went through all the managers, tried installing b43 and after that wl. But both did nothing on the live usb boot. @RedNight left a link that suggests this macbook version wifi doesn't work with linux. https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux