If you think you have ever felt true fear, you havent tried Gentoo yet
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Can't relate. I update compulsively every 2 hours on average.
Real talk: so do I. Part of it is just being a computer nerd, part of it is working in IT, part of it has just been curiously testing Linux.
I have had more stability doing this over the course of a year than I had running the monthly Microsoft updates on Windows 10. On the rare occasions something broke (usually my own tinkering and not the update process) simply reinstalling it actually fixed the problem 90%+. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I was legit surprised and thought I would have slightly more problems with a bleeding edge distro.
As well, it's great to be able to just update everything with one simple command on the command line rather than having each application install an updater task that sometimes sits down in the system tray doing nothing but nagging you. Or having a program prompt you for an upgrade only to take you to the download page and make you basically reinstall the app over the old version with questionable results every time ...
Also hard to relate. Got my Gentoo server running full auto updates every morning and then send an ntfy alert on success or failure. Haven't seen a failed update in so long (other than the occasional package that had a bad build or something once in a while).
Back when I was fresh in the Gentoo and Linux world (Gentoo is where I started) and updating once a month, I can definitely say I ran into issues.. dunno if it's that big of an issue these days though.