MP3 – mintCast

484 – Chuck x 2

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Updated Mint ISOs Then in our Wanderings: Majid explore Tailscale, Joe does it all again. Jim, Charlie, and Charles got some ...

483 – Chucking at Charlie

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint 23 is named, Ubuntu 26.04 coming up and its already causing controversy, Firefox gets more features, big tech making some ...

482 – Noteworthy Stuff

30 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: The fight against enshittification starts In security and privacy: Shock-horror, Chinese government spies Then in our Wande...

481 – Change For The Sake of Jim

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, March 2026; Major Redesign for Firefox: Chrome getting an upgrade; Debian 13.4; SUSE for sale - again; ASUS ...

480 – All Except California

08 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: California is doing its thing again Then in our Wanderings: Bill does it while sick, Joe does a lot, Jim plays with ghost A...

479 – Bill’s Bash Scripts Bring All The Boys To The Yard

20 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – January 2026, In security and privacy: Theres an SSH Stalker And finally, the feedback and a couple o...

478 – The Anti-Windows Cast

14 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

First up in security and privacy: Euro firms ditch American Clouds and systemd stuff Then in our Wanderings: Joe, Majid does yoga with his distros,...

477 – Driving AI Mad

18 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint 22.3 “Zena” released. Then lots of drivers news, new distros, AI and Apple getting sued (again) And finally, the fee...

476 – New Year of the Linux Desktop

11 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: A retraction Review of our predictions for last year, and what we predict for 2026 Then our much anticipated Wanderings

475 – From Tarmageddon to Tranquility

21 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of mintCast, we kick things off with Mint Monthly News for December, covering what’s new and noteworthy in the Linux Mint world. ...

474 – Goldilocks Zone

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – November, and a variety of other items In security and privacy: Cloudfare goes down and Charles finds o...

473 – Parental Misguidance

29 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Theres and initiative in protecting OTA TV from DRM Then in our Wanderings: Joe does a lot, Bill plays magical video cards, M...

472 – New Distros, Old Issues

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

471 – “Welcome To dockerCast”

26 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: LMDE 7 “Gigi” released Then in our Wanderings: Bill suffers an outage, Joe’s Jellyfin is “ok”, Majid is back to “...

470 – Laptop Rescue Service AKA “Send us your stuff!”

12 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: LMDE 7 ‘Gigi” release imminent, Mint Monthly News, Ubuntu 25.10 is out and breaking stuff, Firefox shaking is loved by TIME...

469 – Bill Loves Windows

28 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: LMDE 7 ‘Gigi” BETA released In security and privacy: Mississippi enforces Age Assurance Law, NPM suffers a security breac...

468 – Very Plexable

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” released, Mint Monthly News – August In security and privacy: Plex is a problem again And fina...

Round Table 09-06-25

06 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A Saturday Livestream about everything and nothing.

467 – Line Of Sight

31 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the Mint news: Another birthday for Mint!, Mint 22.2 final ISOs now being tested In security and privacy: Arch is Ddossed and malware a...

Round Table 08-23-25

23 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A Saturday Livestream about everything and nothing.

466 – Print All The Things

17 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First up in The News: Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” BETA Release, The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) project is seeking increased sponsorship, and...

465 – “Won’t Someone Think Of The Children!”

03 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Officiall...

464 – Ticky Tacky People

20 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – July 2025 In our Innards section: Let’s talk BASH! And finally, the feedback and a couple of sugges...

463 – Tacos And TikTok

07 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Linux hits 5%, Nintendo does what we feared, The orange baby eats a TACO, Steam prefers Proton to Native, Fedora might have kil...

462 – Wistful Nostalgia

15 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – May 2025, controversy around the Nintendo Switch 2, Fedora 43 Workstation (GNOME) to remove X11 session, ...

461 – Virtualization

17 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, BackBlaze backups may be in trouble, you can run Arch inside Windows, Linux kernel drops 486 and early 586 s...

460 – Open Discussion

03 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Ubuntu 25.04 released, Ardour advances, Commodore OS 3.0 released, and OpenMandriva brings us TWO new releases In security an...

459 – Travel Digital Hygene

19 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Linux 6.16 To Add Asahi UAPI Header For Apple Silicon, Switzerland battles privacy intrusions, Firefox adds ...

458 – The Mobile Generation

05 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: New GIMP, Debian comes to a RISC-V tablet, Google explains why the are putting Terminal on Android, Asahi Linux loses another t...

457.5 – Crossing The Streams

26 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section: Media Streaming In Bodhi Corner, Bodhi has added new themes and work has started on Bodhi 8, so far using Debian 12 base ...

457- mozillaCast

22 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Firefox’s new terms aren’t that bad, uBlock Origin is the Most Popular Firefox Add-on, Cloudflare bounces browsers, and Poc...

456 – Built For Linux

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – February, Linus Torvalds make Linux Rust-ier, and Mozilla flounders with privacy policy Then in our Wan...

455 – Proxmox

19 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – January, Ubuntu 24.04.2 Delayed, Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Si...

454.5 – Nuked From Orbit

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In our innards section - we have a discussion about "nuke and pave" verses "update in place."

454 – Linux Bans Facebook

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Solus 4.7 Released, Facebook bans Linux, WINE 10 released, RISC V stuff, and cursing at your AI is the way forward In securit...

453.5 – Getting Docked!

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section: A look at Docker And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

453 – Nice Rack, Joe!

22 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” released, Parallels can finally run x86 versions of Linux on Apple Silicon, German router maker is ...

452 – Prognostication Pandemonium!

11 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Not a lot of Linux news….but a lot of Mint News with 22.1 BETA Released Then in our Wanderings: Joe prepares the innards, B...

451.5 – Serves You Right

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section: We talk “servers” and mintCast infrastructure And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

451 – Cinnamon Toast

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: mintCast turned 16 while we weren’t watching, Mint 22.1 being tested, Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop Environment released, US lawyers p...

450 – Crumbling Foundations

16 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – October 2024, Xfce 4.20 Pre1 Pre-Release Published For Testing, KDE's New Distro, Mozilla Foundation crum...

449.5 – Distrohermits’ Digest

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section, we talk a little about distrohopping. And Finally, The feedback and a couple of suggestions.

449 – 3D Podcasting

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Ubuntu 25.04 gets perfect name, WinAmp deletes entire Github code, Ubuntu 24.10 released for Snapdragon X Elite, Arm cancels Qu...

448.5 – All About Headphones

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section: We talk headphones And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

448 – The Archive Is Breached!

17 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – September, Xfce 4.20 creeps toward Wayland support, Archive.org is breached, Arch and Valve team up, WWWF...

447.5 – Interview with Ken McConnell

17 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section: we visit with author Ken McConnell And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

447 – Real Time Linux

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Linux Kernel 6.11 released, Intel spins off its foundry business, Real Time comes to Linux, Qualcomm wants to buy Intel, WP Eng...

446 – The Beauty of Cinnamon, and The Downfall of Redbox

22 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – August 2024, Software Freedom Day, In security and privacy: Apple Suddenly Drops NSO Group Spyware La...

445 – Wearable

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: KITE OS educational Linux developed in Kerala, India, Microsoft rolls out Windows Recall again, Linus regrets merging BCacheFS ...

444.5 – Home, Home On The LAN

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section: Home networking: tips, tricks, dos and don’ts And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

444 – The News is HUGE!

22 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Canonical Moves To Shipping Very Latest Upstream Kernel Code, Google Search is playing Monopoly, Wordstar7 is open sourced, SuS...

443.5 – Mint 22 – Any Thoughts?

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our Wanderings: Bill loves the image, Joe works too hard, Moss does upgrades, Majid sells stuff and rants, and Eric wants to becomes one with AI. ...

443 – Wilma Has Arrived

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Linux Mint 22 “Wilma” released, Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source, Intel suffers stock los...

442 – AMD Support is Cachy(ing) On

27 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint 22 update, Red Hat may replace GRUB, Fedora drops X11, CachyOS adds AMD support, Apple approves PC emulator, SUSE Requests...

441.5 – NASters of the Universe

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section: It’s all about the NAS And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

441 – Mint’s Back and Rocking

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint 22 Beta Released, Mint Monthly News – June, Firefox has a Weather tab, Seattle computer collection is being auctioned, P...

440.5 – “Can I Say That On TV?”

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section: We have a discussion about what distros we think are best for beginners And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestio...

440 – Schrödinger’s mintCast

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint 22 Beta in testing, Cinnamon 6.2 Desktop Environment Released, Linux's New DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" In Action, Ubu...

439.5 – Pain Points and Pitfalls

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section: Linux Pain Points: Why doesn’t Linux Just Work? And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

439 – Doin’ The Proton Dance

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Another US state repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition, Internet Archive Hit With DDoS ...

438.5 – Behold the AI Overlords

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section: We have a free-form discussion on AI utility, privacy and security And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

438 – Copilot Takeover

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mozilla Reveals New Features Coming to Firefox, Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users, KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Releas...

437.5 – Dude, Where’s My Password?

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section: we’re going to discuss some best practices for good hygiene and safety when utilizing technology. And finally, the feedba...

437 – X-citing News!

15 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News for April, Ubuntu 24.04 released, Ubuntu 24.10 Codename Revealed, systemd introduces run0, Google threatens R...

436.5 – Popey’s Groupies

08 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section: We interview Alan Pope And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

436 – Upgrade At Your Peril

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: AlmaLinux restores some deprecated stuff, Nouveau dev joins the bigs, Linux runs cars, Microsoft sneaks MS-DOS 4.0 into their o...

435.5 – Pies and Wires

24 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section: Migrating Pihole and wireguard to an x86_64 system In Vibrations from the Ether, we have listener feedback about malicious ...

435 – Eric’s Back!

19 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the News: Mint Monthly News, Mint is testing new CDN setup for repositories, EndeavourOS ends ARM branch due to lack of help, Proton buys...

434.5 – 3.2.1…Backup!!

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section: Using the Linux Mint Backup Tool and backing up applet settings And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

434 – Open Source, Close Malware

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Red Hat Announces Nova Graphics Driver for NVIDIA GPUs, Blender 4.1 released, MakuluLinux brings LinDoz back this time with AI,...

433 – They’re All Out To Get You!

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – February 2024, Linux market share passes 4% for first time, SerpentOS makes progress, AMD is told hands o...

432.5 – Ears Deep

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section we have an impromptu discussion about audio editing - some things to think about when editing for a podcast. And finally, th...

432 – “Podcasts Are Better”

06 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: KDE MegaRelease 6, No open source HDMI 2.1 driver In security and privacy: New Wi-Fi Vulnerabilities Expose Android and Linu...

431 – Artificially Intelligent

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Linux Mint Monthly News, Google Is Dying News, Samsung defends GenAI, India bans Protonmail, NGINX Core Dev Quits and Forks I...

430.5 – Infrastructure Bill

14 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section: Bill explains the current mintCast infrastructure In "Check This Out" we share a call for new shows by Hacker Public Radio ...

430 – Darn Small(er) Linux

07 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint 21.3 "Edge" is out, Ubuntu taking heat over Pro packages, Bazzite 2.2 is out, BunsenLabs Boron is out, Parrot 6.0 is out, ...

429 – Do You Desktop?

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint 21.3 released, Linux kernel 4.14 goes EOL, Google sued over patent infringement, OpenSSH phases out DSA keys, Canonical sn...

428.5 – 2024 Predictions

17 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section: Predictions: 2023 mistakes and 2024 attempts In "Check This Out" Bill Talks a little about Ventoy - again And finally, th...

428 – 32 bit’s Days Are Numbered

13 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Fedora Asahi Remix Officially Released for Apple Silicon Macs In security and privacy: Nothin'. We got not...

427.5 – Free Form or Free Fall

20 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section: We're a bit all over the place - a "free form" if you will. And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions. No, real...

427 – “Virginia is For Lovers.”

13 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia” – BETAs released, Mint Monthly News – November 2023, Gnome shell updates on Ubuntu 23.10; Zo...

426.5 – Cry “Havoc!” and Bring Forth The Tablets of War.

06 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section: Tablets. Linux tablets. In "Check This Out": Ubuntu Touch OTA, PineTab 2, and Enter Shikari - Anaesthetist Download

426 – Happy Birthday, mintCast!

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: mintCast has a birthday, Mint 21.3 is named, Amazon works on a Linux fork for their devices, Ubuntu commits to Netplan, Firefox...

425.5 – Infinitely Galactic, The Interview

22 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In our innards section we have a wonderful interview with Blaine, AKA Infinity Galactic; a YouTuber who's been making videos about Linux. Recently, h...

425 – Firefox Down

19 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Ubuntu 24.04 gets a name, Mozilla Doubles Down on Firefox DEB Package, Discord is now official on Flathub, scrcpy gets an updat...

424 – Meh Snap

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News; Ubuntu 23.10 re-released; GNOME gets new CEO; new RaspPi Imager released; Plasma 6 Release Dates released; M...

423.5 – It’s Elementary Or Nothing!

25 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section, we speak to Danielle Fore´ of Elementary OS about the 7.1 release, In "Check This Out" we share a video by "Explaining Com...

423 – Lay Down A *buntu

21 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint 21.2 Cinnamon EDGE released, new version of Raspberry Pi OS released, new Ubuntu 23.10+flavours In security and privacy:...

422.5 – When In ROM

11 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section we continue the conversation about Android, and the variants thereof In "Check This Out" GNU turns 40! And finally, the fe...

422 – Bit of a Hodgepodge

04 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: LMDE 6 FAYE released, Mint 21.2 EDGE iso approved, Long-term support for Linux kernel to be cut In security and privacy: Upda...

421.5 – What Fecking Time Is It?

27 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section, Dale will take us back to the desktop And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Download

421 – Fun and Feckless

20 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: LMDE 6 “Faye” BETA Released, Fedora and Asahi Linux revamp installation process, Plasma 6 release date is set, IBM raises c...

420.5 – “I Don’t Inhale”

13 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section, we talk about Linux on mobile devices In "Check This Out" We discuss a CNN article about Ukraine's drone training. Downloa...

420 – “Puff Puff Pass”

06 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – August, New Asahi Linux Mac GPU beats Apple, Gnome improves Epiphany, Budgie 10.8 is out, Bodhi 7.0.0 is r...

419.5 – Bill & Majid’s Bogus Journey

30 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section we talk about cloud storage solutions and attempt to demystify some of the procedures for hosting your own cloud storage. In ...

419 – Bill & Majid’s Excellent Adventure

23 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: LXD-Linux Containers Forks LXD Project as "Incus", Indian Defense Services are Switching to Linux, Mint’s birthday coming up, ...

418 – In Memoriam: Kevin Mitnick

12 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Fedora Asahi Remix debuts, Wine 8.13 releases, Debian makes RISC-V official, Inkscape 1.3 released, Canonical...

417.5 – Pick Me! Pick Me!

02 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section, we talk “ethical telemetry” And finally, the feedback In "Check This Out" Check out the new version and tell us what yo...

417 – All Hail Avrecon

29 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

First up in the news: Mint 21.2 Victoria released, Canonical’s Leading LXD Engineer Quits, Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its ‘Minimal’ Install Option, a...

416.5 – Browser Arousal

19 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In our Innards section we talk browsers And finally, the feedback In "Check This Out" a link to a cool project and a YouTube video worth giving a l...