Do not rush in to patch without doing your homework and testing! 

Dell has rolled back patches for many of their models, people that jumped on the patch train early are having to manually undo patches on hundreds of laptops with a good percentage bricking, and the patches Intel submitted to Linux are poorly written and flawed. Plus there's no firmware patches for older devices.

This situation is a mess, but with no true competition in the laptop, workstation and server world, Intel brought it on through their hubris.Knowledgeable voices in the outskirts of the tech community have warned about this possible situation with Intel processors for years.  

It's sad that my two RaspberryPi's are the only semi-useful computers in the house not affected.