477 – Driving AI Mad

18/01/2026 1h 21min
477 – Driving AI Mad

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Episode Synopsis

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 feedback and a couple of suggestions


Link To Full Show Notes


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, [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 podcast I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid).
Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], Atypical.doctor on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC.
Eric – I can be reached by email at [email protected].
Charles – [email protected], Mr PDX on Discord
Jim– [email protected], 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!>