You can postpone them but it’s a risk. Companies try to mitigate risks, because they don’t want to get hacked or fined because they don’t follow regulation. And to be honest it’s in your best interest to be up to date too. It’s not such a pain in the ass to reboot your computer every once in a while :)
Updating is not as much PITA as you think they are, and it’s worth doing it. Obviously nothing will protect you fully, but the more frequently you update l, the safer you are.
You can postpone them but it’s a risk. Companies try to mitigate risks, because they don’t want to get hacked or fined because they don’t follow regulation. And to be honest it’s in your best interest to be up to date too. It’s not such a pain in the ass to reboot your computer every once in a while :)
Plus, he is on Linux. It would take him all of 5 minutes to update on the slowest of hardware.
As long as he’s not using Gentoo with ebuilds (which I’m 99% positive he isn’t);)
Both of you are spot on, updates are blazing fast, and i’m clearly not on Gentoo x) thx for the explanation, its clearer for me now
Updating is not as much PITA as you think they are, and it’s worth doing it. Obviously nothing will protect you fully, but the more frequently you update l, the safer you are.