First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – May 2025, controversy around the Nintendo Switch 2, Fedora 43 Workstation (GNOME) to remove X11 session, end of Linux Format, and we have a new format and new co-host!
In our Innards section: Dale discusses mobile internet devices and networks
In Check This Out, we cover Packet, a new file transfer utility that integrates with Android’s Quick Share
And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions


Full Show Notes Here


The News:
Mint Monthly News – May 2025
Nintendo Switch 2 Controversy
Fedora 43 Workstation (GNOME) to remove X11 session
After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine is No More

Check This Out:

Packet – https://github.com/nozwock/packet (Eric)

A partial implementation of Google’s Quick Share protocol that lets you send and receive files wirelessly from Android devices using Quick Share, or another device with Packet.
Yes, there are a plethora of file transfer apps but this one is interesting for a few reasons.

It integrates with an inbuilt Android feature making transferring files more straightforward than installing yet another app.
The speed seems to be very good based on the testing I’ve done.
Perhaps not important to some, the UI is very well done and the app is easy to use.






Contact Info:

Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], occasionally on HPR
Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also checkout the other two podcasts I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid) and 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC.
Eric – I can be reached by email at [email protected].
Dale – Dale_CDL on Telegram and Discord. [email protected], Distrohoppers’Digest


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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
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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!>

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