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Ubuntu Pro subscription - should you pay to use Linux? (optimizedbyotto.com)
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[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You do, but not when your distro is EoL and not with livepatching to avoid reboots.

[–] lemmyng@piefed.ca 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not true. 22.04 is not EoL and it doesn't get all CVE patches backported unless you're on Pro.

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

From the link:

Here, the Ubuntu developers roll out in-house universe security patches (additional backports of new patches against historical versions of the packages), which was previously not available

I'm not sure every package should be considered supported in LTS, so this not being available by default looks ok for me