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Yes, fixes for CVE’s are back ported.

E.g. Debian 8 was released in 2015 and all support will be terminated in 2025 when there is no more Freexian support.

Currently, the release cycle is 2 years standard release 1 year support by the Debian security team, 2 years LTS support, and 5 years ELTS with Freexain, you get a total of 10 years support.

The problem is always going to be that after the first 3 years the support is not handle by Debian, and it doesn’t include all architectures of the original release, if you are using exotic hardware don’t expect to get the full 10 years you get with x86.

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I started using Linux around the same time.

I had bought a Linux CD box with Red Hat and Slackware, I didn’t know anything about Linux and had no idea which of the two to pick, so I picked Slackware because the name sounded cooler.

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I also think the essay is pretty bad, but he right about a self-hosted solution is better.

I prefer using Tor, it’s well tested, and has very good software support, Tor browser, Whoinx, Tails, etc.

I feel Lokinet needs a “killer app”, there really isn’t any reason to use it.

You can verify the official builds were signed with their key.

https://wiki.lineageos.org/verifying-builds

Unless you are able to read/audit the code, you would need to trust the maintainers even if you run the build scripts yourself.

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Sure, but someone who just want the app store desktop experience probably is going to care about snap vs. deb

Probably Ubuntu or one of the Ubuntu derivatives like Mint or Pop!_OS

Yes, an old laptop without any security updates is going to be less secure, than a modern day laptop with all security updates, but this is true for all firmware.

You can run Coreboot on modern day hardware, and it supports most security features.

The biggest difference is probably going to be Intel BootGuard vs. Coreboot vboot, but the downside of BootGuard is that it removes all control of the firmware.

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, but I’m also waiting for the Linux client.

Windows > macOS > Linux, they said that was the order of priority, and would soon be starting a closed beta for the mac client.

The only thing that made me a little nervous for the Linux client was that it didn’t really sound like it was currently being worked on, and they also need to improve on the existing mobile client for them to work with the desktop clients.