I think it&#x27;s about what tools you use day to day. If, for example, you have SSH installed on your machine but don&#x27;t have sshd enabled, then you could care less how outdated it is. Nobody is exploiting you through it if it&#x27;s not running. If all you use your workstation for is browsing and text editing, then it&#x27;s safe to assume you want those two applications to be as secure as possible. You can then look at, for example, what browser version the distro of your choice ships and judge it from that. Firefox, as an example, releases quite often and a distro that doesn&#x27;t keep up with those updates gets a minus point from me. This is my personal view at things and may not sit with everyone.