Linux Mint to now ensure you update your distro on time

Linux Mint’s latest release comes with a whole bunch of changes including a significant one to the Update Manager. This new feature is going to remind uses to keep their installations updated. Clement Lefebvre, the developer of Linux Mint, earlier this year, had expressed concerns about how users ignore security updates and explore their installations, that are connected to the internet, to all sorts of risk. This new feature on the distro is going to make sure users do not do that any longer.

Linux Mint does not collect or relay any telemetry data, as the latest server update shows. But Lefebre stated that only 30% of users update their distros in less than a week and a sizable percentage of users are still running outdated versions of the distro that stopped getting security updates in 2019.