Tag: Linux Mint

• July 29, 2026Podcasts

  77 – Benevolent Dictators for Life?

  Join hosts Bill, Charlie, Eric, and Majid in episode 77 of Linux OTC to unpack a heated Linux Mint vs GNOME Calendar dispute and what it means for how distros handle outdated packages. The hosts open with a personal detour into culture and identity before diving into the core issue: users on Linux Mint's LTS base are hitting bugs already fixed upstream in GNOME Calendar, leaving developers and distro maintainers pointing fingers at each other. The conversation covers release cadence, the tension between stable branches and rolling releases, Flatpak's growing role in desktop software, and whether desktop-integrated apps should ever ship via Flatpak at all.

  The second half turns to a Flatpak governance controversy involving a banned developer and a Flathub reviewer, sparking a wider debate about open-source project leadership and the case for a benevolent dictator for life. Charlie shares his first vibe-coding experiment building a Cinnamon Spices applet, and the group compares vulnerability-scanning results using Arcane and Trivy. They also revisit Arch Linux installers like EndeavourOS and Arch OS, discuss AUR helpers, and rank graphical package managers including KDE Discover, GNOME Software, and Bazaar. New episodes drop every two weeks — join the conversation on Matrix.

• May 2, 2026Podcasts

  71 – Compound Stupidity

  We start off talking about the non standard experience you get from one Linux distro to another. Majid talks about his experience transferring files. Some Distros are a little closer to the upstream than others. This gets us into a discussion about Fedora, RHEL, and the like. All of this and way more!

• October 7, 2024Podcasts

  37 – Cinnamon and Stealing Hardware

  This week we start off talking about Leo's latest episode of Linux User Space. In episode 5:02, Leo and Dan go over a history of the Cinnamon desktop, and how tightly it's tied to Linux Mint it's self. We then morphed into a conversation about Windows 8, Windows on the command line, and how Gnome 3 seemed to come along about the same time. Desktop design was the hot topic. We then moved on to the APT package manager, and the differences between it on Mint, and the rest of the Debian world. I could write more, but you'd spend more time reading this than you would listening to the show. We get into a lot of stuff.