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My dad uses Ubuntu as an htpc and has livepatch enabled, but every year or so when I visit it's always out of date. This time it needed a partial patch.

Is Ubuntu just bad, is there a better alternative that's closer to Windows where the machine are actually kept up to date?

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[-] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What do you mean by "out of date"... what is out of date? According to what?

Livepatch is only for kernel security fixes... it doesn't upgrade the regular packages on your system if that's what you mean by "out of date". You either need to run apt (or a GUI version) manually or set it to automatically update your system packages.

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