First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – October 2025

Then, new distro news and updates, and more streaming stuff

In security and privacy: don’t trust every PPA!

The News:

Mint Monthly News – October 2025

GNOME 50 Ends the X11 Era After Decades

CachyOS Continues Delivering Leading Performance Over Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora Workstation 43

ElementaryOS Updates

IncusOS: A New Immutable Linux System Built for Running Incus

KDE Plasma 6.6 Introduces QR Code Wi-Fi Connections, Boosts Performance

Ikey Doherty Missing from AerynOS for Six Months

Debian’s APT Package Manager to Integrate Rust Code by May 2026

90% of Windows games now run on Linux; Linux gamers on Steam cross 3% mark

The Internet is Dying. 50% of all traffic is now non-human

The Internet Archive’s legal fight is over but loses 500,000 books from its Open Library in the process

The Internet Archive’s legal fight is over but loses 500,000 books from its Open Library in the process

YouTube TV’s Disney blackout reminds users that they don’t own what they stream

Security And Privacy:

Don’t blindly trust every PPA. FreeRDP installed via this PPA for Winboat may have malware

Check This Out:

Instagram- web site to view videos and photos without an account: https://imginn.com

Firefox- tip to get shorter tab height: about:config change browser.uidensity from 01 to 1 https://leochavez.org/old/firefox-tabs.html

AppImageLauncher v.3.00 beta (.deb file or AppImage, not the old PPA, which is no longer compatible with Noble Numbat and therefore Mint 22.0+) https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher/releases

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IRCCloud allows a persistent connection with the free tier as long as your device stays connected, and allows two network connections, plus is able to connect to same network twice, so one can use two different nicknames on same network.

How to get started with Tailscale in under 10 minutes

Interview with Mark Shuttleworth on LNL

Contact Info:

• Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee





• Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, moss@bodhilinux.com, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, occasionally on HPR





• Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also checkout the other podcast I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid).





• Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC.





• Eric – I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org.





• Charles – charles@mintcast.org, Mr PDX on Discord





• Jim– jim@mintcast.org, GNU2Linux on Discord, The Linux Shortcut on YouTube

Special Thanks To:

• Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio





• Archive.org for hosting our audio files





• Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo





• Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions





• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>