And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

The News:

Mint 22.3 “Zena” released

EndeavourOS 2026.01.12 Released With Linux 6.18 LTS Kernel, NVIDIA Open Modules

Ubuntu 26.04 Aims To Deliver Better NVIDIA Wayland Performance Atop GNOME

Big GPU & Kernel Update Headed to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Firefox 147 Arrives with XDG Support on Linux, Auto-PiP + More

GNOME and Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default

WINE 11.0 Released

Adobe Photoshop 2025 Installer Now Working On Linux With Patched Wine

Microsoft Office Is Now ‘Microsoft 365 Copilot App

Microsoft is Slowly Turning Edge Into Another Copilot App

A.I., now including advertisements!

Discord Files Confidentially for IPO

New Dell XPS 14 and 16 Announced, Ubuntu Version Coming This Year

Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down After 58 Years

Apple to pay $95 million to settle Siri privacy lawsuit

Check This Out:

How to Install COSMIC Desktop on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

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 @atypical_doctor@mastodon.social, Atypical.doctor on Instagram and Threads 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!>