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!

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

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

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