Every day. There’s no point being an a bleeding edge distro if you’re not riding the edge 🤣
The horror of rebooting every day.
I shut everything down at the end of the day. Takes <30 seconds to boot up so it’s not really an issue
The horror is not how long booting takes, but rather if it’ll work
Ahh, fair. I’ve been running a fedora atomic distro for a while so that’s not really somebing I worry about anymore.
It takes about ten seconds. Thirty or so if you include all my running programs restarting
I update every day. Things rarely go wrong. When they do, it’s fixing time, which I kinda enjoy. Only when I know that I really need the computer to work at next boot, will I delay updating.
It’s not about worrying something will go wrong at boot, it’s just about the annoyance of losing my session.
Every week or two, or month, or two. 🙃
every 7 days
Or if I hear about a security update.
That’s what I’m doing as well, seems like a good compromise.
Infrequently (when I remember)
Whenever I’m bored and can’t think of anything else to do
When I remember, or when something breaks
When I think of it. Every few days on average, sometimes weeks though.
I’ve blindly updated a year+ old Arch install without introducing problems. Not saying they don’t ever happen, but it isn’t that common.
Daily usually.
Counter-question: how do linux releases roll?
I usually run updates every night before I shut down my computer. Probably in part a leftover from the time I used Gentoo and I’d leave my computer on over night compiling updates. I’m not saying this is the optimal way, it just feels right for me.
Daily, or on machines I don’t use daily, every time I boot into it
Generally as I get a notification that packages are available. The exception is probably if there’s a new kernel and I don’t feel like rebooting.
I update Portage almost daily but do the actual package updating kind of every week - it depends on how many packages are (or how big they are) to be updated
Every day by cronjob.
Every day (NixOS unstable)
