Episode 465 Show Notes

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This is Episode 465!

Recorded on Sunday, August 3, 2025.

Barely here, no guarantees, I’m Moss; Power’s On, I’m Bill; Servers me right, I’m Majid; feeling like the guy who melts in Raider of the Lost Ark, I’m Eric, Still living the dream, I’m Charles,… Jim

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  • First up in the news: Mint 22.2 betas now in testing, Arch AUR Under Fire Once More as Malware Resurfaces, Debian 13 Trixie Release Date is Officially Confirmed, and Hyprland Hyprperks have been launched.
  • In Check This Out, Ignition allows you to manage startup apps and scripts
  • And finally, Vibrations From the Ether
  • Please remember if you want to follow along with our discussions, the full show notes for this episode are linked in the show’s description at mintcast.org/show-notes

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The News

20 minutes

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/microsoft_recall_captures_credit_card_info/? td=rt-3a

(Charles)

  • Debian 13 Trixie Release Date is Officially Confirmed (Eric)
    Sources: OSTechNix, LinuxConfig
    • Release date set for August 9th, 2025
    • Notable additions and changes include:
      • Support for the riscv64 architecture which is expected to speed adoption of RISC-V, a free and open standard instruction set architecture.
      • Architecture Support: Seven total supported architectures including amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, ppc64el, and s390x and partial 32-bit userland (i386) available on 64-bit PC systems
      • Numerous security enhancements, system improvements, and software updates
      • Package statistics: Over 59,551 total packages (11,294 new, 42,821 updated, 9,519 removed)
      • Desktop environments: GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, LXDE 13, LXQt 2.1.0, Xfce 4.20
    • Trixie’s journey to becoming a stable release has been a multi-year process:
      • 2020-11-08: The distribution codename “Trixie” was first announced.
      • 2023-06-10: After Debian 12 (Bookworm) was released, Trixie became the “testing” branch.
      • 2025-03-15: Trixie entered its Transition and Toolchain Freeze. During this phase, no new major transitions or disruptive changes to core system components were allowed.
      • 2025-04-15: The Soft Freeze began. At this point, only small, targeted fixes were deemed appropriate for Trixie, and the migration delay for packages to testing increased. New packages or packages removed from testing were no longer allowed back.
      • 2025-05-15: The Hard Freeze started. This stage applied stricter rules to “key packages” and those without automatic tests, treating them much like the upcoming Full Freeze. Other packages with automatic tests continued under the Soft Freeze rules but with even longer migration delays.
    • Debian was the first Linux distribution I used back in early 2000s
    • I recently started running Trixie on my Dell Latitude 5290 2-in-1 and it has been a great experience so far. Very smooth and performant.
  • Hyprperks have been launched! (Eric)
    • Via https://hypr.land/
    • The Hyprland Wayland compositor, a tiling window manager buit for use with Wayland, has officially introduced Hyprperks, a new paid subscription service that provides a “premium desktop experience” along with additional benefits.
    • Hyprperks costs 5€ per month plus taxes. The paid features include:
      • Member-only forum access, with dev Q&A, support from me, and more
      • Premium desktop experience, which is a set of preconfigured dotfiles with a one-click install and update
      • And of course, support the continued development.

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Security and Privacy

10 minutes

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Check This Out

10 minutes

Ignition – Manage startup apps and scripts

GitHub: https://github.com/flattool/ignition

Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.flattool.Ignition

Ignition provides a simple UI to add, remove, and modify startup entries on your computer. Ignition can add apps, scripts, and arbitrary commands to run at login.

  • View your startup entries
  • Create startup entries for installed apps
  • Create startup entries for saved scripts
  • Create startup entries for arbitrary commands

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Vibrations from the Ether

20 minutes (~5 minutes each)

Hi,

In the news you talked about LMDE and use it as daily driver.

I use LMDE 6 as my daily driver and I started in Dec 2023.

Like Bill mentioned it lacks the Device/Driver manager that standard

Mint has. That is one of the major drawbacks from my point of view.

When I started in Dec 2023, its Debian base was relatively recently

released and the repository also up to date (as up to date Debian stable

ever is). I assume now when Debian 12 is getting older and Debian 13 is

around the corner, the differences in package versions in LMDE vs

standard Mint is bigger. I’m fine with that in most cases.

The look and feel between LMDE and standard Mint Cinnamon is negblible.

I am very satisfied with LMDE as my daily driver.

The Innards about BASH was interesting. I do use the terminal and BASH

to some extend, but I’m not good at it. So very good listen to you who

are far more experienced and competent.

Regards

Henrik Hemrin

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