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They say that it loses support last month. If I don't upgrade what support will I be losing? Will they stop sending me Linux kernels or is it something else?

I'm no techie so be sorta gentle

They say that it loses support last month. If I don't upgrade what support will I be losing? Will they stop sending me Linux kernels or is it something else? I'm no techie so be sorta gentle

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[–] • 4 pts

the stopping of support, basically, means you will not find anything new in the standard repositories for your system.

Kernels and applications, and security updates for those appss stop being posted to the upchain system being tested and verified compatible with your software

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So I eventually become ancient and potentially vulnerable to hacks and viruses using my apps and or browsers?

[–] • 1 pt

sooner than you think. But yes.

It isnt going to hurt, if your system can handle it, to go to the next LTS version of Mint.

I am not familiar with mint these days and what changed across releases.

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I wish there was a way that I could just upgrade into it without having to wipe and start over. It doesn't look like I can do that from what I'm reading. Although to a untrained user like myself a lot of it looks like braille. They also made the boot disk creation kind of tricky compared to previous years which is annoying.