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Ubuntu Pro for Personal/Home Use (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by thehatfox@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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For any Ubuntu users here, are you using the free personal subscription of Ubuntu Pro for ESM patches?

I'm curious how many bother, and how the experience is for home/personal servers.

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[–] synestine@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

No. I upgrade my Ubuntus before they go EOL so I don't need ESM.

Most places that want ESM do so because they can't get away from EOL versions. I refuse to get stuck in that swamp myself, so I run LTS and migrate/rebuild them when necessary.

[–] stuner@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm running Ubuntu on a server. I've enabled the free Ubuntu Pro subscription to get ESM patches for the universe repository. Not sure if it really matters, but better safe than sorry.

[–] forbiddenlake@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I do. I upgrade before the major release goes out of support, so no I don't get much from it, but I do still get patches from it occasionally. Iirc they released an imagemagick patch before upstream did

[–] 17lifers@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

free security updates are a win of course

[–] _edge@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago

I have enabled this on my private machine, because it's free and it was asking so nicely.

I don't have the same patches on servers at work.

[–] guy_threepwood@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I’ve tried it. Can’t really see much difference from not using it. As others have said, being a personal user you’re not much of a target - being smart about what you run on your computer has much more of an effect on security.

In the future I probably won’t bother

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

I am for my gaming rig!

[–] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

I haven't tried it, but the live kernel updates feature is what intrigues me the most.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 months ago

I have a few low-stakes servers with Ubuntu so I enabled it, mostly for the kernel livepatching