Path: ...!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mike Easter Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mint Subject: Re: Keep your PC updated please Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 09:23:54 -0800 Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net pMlULRXsxhMty3bkzC/aJQZQ5MZW+s2kxnSgSv6ndNyTTlxrDl Cancel-Lock: sha1:KhPmikV2fefpf3pTsdX65854Oyg= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2622 Gordon wrote: > There is a "special" posting in the mint blog where Clem points out that us > Mint users need to do better than we are doing. Updates taking too long and > far too many people still running Mint 17.x which came to EOL in April 2019. > That article* and its comments are a very worthwhile read. It is worthwhile for a number of different reasons: - Clem recognizes that his sources of information about how 'bad' the lack of updating really is are unreliable - he expresses a useful way to assess the vulnerabilities one's browser - he expresses and illustrates the strengths of Mint's protections against problems w/ updating such as Timeshift snapshots - he has 'special' instructions for that significant number (5-30% he thinks) of Mint users who are still using Mint 17 about how to update their browser 'anyway'. AND... .... the comments are a worthwhile read as well because some comments address the special cases in which there are advantages or necessities of using an older version of Mint. The old systems I have, whether they are Windows XP or Mint 17 are special cases and I don't browse with them. Clem posted his blog yesterday and there are currently 50 comments including one which argues for the importance of him personally staying on 19 instead of going to 20, and a *great* many comments related to not updating Firefox. It is a little tedious to 'go thru' all the comments on a worthwhile article like this, but it also has the value of providing a lot of Clem's responses in the comments. * https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4030 One comment said: > This is such a beautifully crafted message. Clear. Not a spare word. Grammatically perfect. Nicely illustrated. -- Mike Easter