My dad uses Ubuntu as an htpc and has livepatch enabled, but every year or so when I visit it’s always out of date. This time it needed a partial patch.
Is Ubuntu just bad, is there a better alternative that’s closer to Windows where the machine are actually kept up to date?
Livepatch is implemented in a hacking way. It dynamically patch kernel code in memory so it should only be used in the machine can’t be reboot completely. For a normal machine, use unattended-upgrades instead.