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Thanks for the feedback! Yes, we've already thought about that. We're not quite sure which way to go, so we're very open to suggestions from the community.

For now, you can simply re-run kait2en-install to fetch the latest updates.

YAY, thank you, happy to read that!

You’re actually the first person we know of to have used the installer script. Has it been smooth sailing so far?

Happy to see you on Discord or Matrix, details are on the GitHub readme.

nice to hear that there is demand for it. :)

You can also join our Discord or Matrix server (details on GH) and we're more than happy to help you out!

Hi HN, everyone knows the T2 Macs, the neglected last generation before Apple decided to switch to ARM. MacOS 26 is the last supported release and it runs terrible on some of these devices... they simply can't cope with enough power to give users a smooth experience. That's why the devices are affordable and just right to put Linux on it, to give them another few years of life. There is a community called T2linux, who already did the major lifting a couple of years ago. They wrote essential drivers to communicate with the T2 security chip in order to get Keyboard, Trackpad, Sound and the internal Camera to work. They patched the kernel and maintain own versions of all major distributions.

While this brings much choice to the users, a lot of problems come with that approach, too. You can't easily rule out bugs, since every distro configuration is totally different. There are so many different repos and quirks needed to make things work, on I believe 16 different T2 Mac models? This can lead to frustration at the developer side: When we offered code changes and wanted them tested, we had to deal with not directly comparable results and a lot of distro-specific "noise".

Asahi has shown the value of concentrating development around a single reference platform. So we decided to do the same here and created KaiT2en. That is our clean reference platform based on Fedora. We rewrote the necessary t2linux kernel patches into DKMS modules. Yes, we're using the vanilla Fedora kernel. We've only included what's really necessary.

We've already fixed suspend, the shutdown path and the touchbar. We did a major overhaul to the audio driver. We included a brand new touch bar daemon and wrote an automatic installer to get this installed as smooth as possible.

We're working on open problems like better dGPU or Thunderbolt support.

Our long-term goal is to upstream as much code as possible. Until then, we want to give users and developers alike a smooth and consistent linux experience on T2 Macs.

I can imagine that in the future we might have a language that no human understands, but that is perfectly optimized to be written by AI. Since humans will only be "project managers", this makes perfectly sense. Not sure if I like this idea though. Crazy times ahead.

Funny implementation of Tetris, but the sound is annoying. The loop is too fast and too short. But I like it, besides that :)

Preparation: Let it explore small parts of the code and ask it to write .md documentation. It will pick it up and read it later. Create an AGENTS.md file and put in your coding principles. Let it always update its documentation. Do that until the whole repo is in good shape.

Then for execution: Use plan mode. Let it always write a plan first, check it, correct it and only then allow it to implement it.

Try to break big tasks down in small substeps. As small as possible. Let it implement changes iteratively. Let it do a lot of local git commits. Both Codex and Claude Code use this as documentation as well.

Basically, treat it like a junior developer working under you.

Make sure appropriate tests are written for every code change.

Congratulations! That is a huge milestone. I never came that far until now.

Linux / Gnome, Firefox, Immich, Paperless NGX, GIMP

yes, finally. So good to see another independent browser engine around. I am watching their monthly progress videos on YT and it is quite amazing how well the project has evolved IMO