On 2026-05-17 Jason Loughead via Roundtable wrote:
haven't already) so be sure to always install updates. On Debian/Ubuntu derivations simply run "sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades; sudo unattended-upgrades" and you'll have automatically installed security updates. Jason
The problem is often not that people aren't updating, it's that they are running an EOL OS that doesn't get updates anymore. In this case, though, his Mint is still under support for another year. Also, unattended upgrades are generally a good thing (especially for home users), but most don't auto-reboot when it's a kernel bug. And all of these recent CVEs are kernel bugs, requiring reboots to take effect. Some package managers won't even restart all related daemons when their packages are updated, which is basically the same problem. Even worse when you're talking about libraries that are deps of other things! No magic bullet. You kind of have to keep up with the updates mailing lists for your distro, and/or run updates manually religiously and pay attention to what's going on so you restart daemons/programs and/or reboot. Even worse, every distro does it differently.