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When and how often do you update your system? (feddit.org)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I am kind of new to Linux. I started with nobara and got comfortable with the overall feel of Linux. Then a few weeks ago I switched over to cashyos, to try something new.

But what I wonder all the time: How often should I update my system? With Windows there were some updates happening in the background about every week and it was not necessary nor possible to manage them in detail.

But now on Linux I get update notification sometimes twice a day. I am also aware, that cashyos is doing roling updates. As I understand it, this means they are pushing them without much delay for testing. Is this a reason to wait a little before applying new updates so bugs can be fixed? But when I wait, arent there always new updates coming in? Also those Bugfixes would also be updates that I would then delay.

How are you handling it? And how are your experiences?

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[–] 2 points 6 months ago

I run apt update && apt upgrade every few days at slowest, or whenever i want to install or remove something with apt. That's Debian.

I'm pretty sure the only programs on my computer that automatically update are those by Mozilla, since i don't know how to stop them.

Debian is known for being very stable so i trust that when it tells me to do a system update i should, and so far nothing has broken except what i break.

Usually i only don't use the latest version of something if either the latest version is worse than an older version (KiCAD seems to get less usable over time, from what i know) or the latest version isn't available to me for some reason (PolyGlot has unsatisfyable dependencies so i use an old version).

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