Theo
Æ.Linux users:
How often do you run your system's update procedure (like an `apt upgrade`, etc)?
(boosts welcome)
daily
every few days
about weekly
Less often
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Robin Jayasinghe@aesthr it’s Debian. There‘s not much incoming ☺️
-dsr- (hypoparenthetically)It's Debian. apticron sends me email when there's an upgrade.
Lisa
Ember is so tired of people. 
@aesthr usually weekly to monthly, getting less and less frequent the more projects get slopped
@aesthr
Every couple of days, but I don't really think about it.
I use `byobu` as a tmux client which has a built-in feature to show outstanding package upgrades on the lower status bar. So that way I just kinda know when there is stuff to be upgraded, and I do whenever I feel like it.
There is also a cronjob that runs `pacman -Syu --downloadonly` every couple of hours. That way I can upgrade my laptop on-the-go without having to rely on mobile internet for package downloads.
Xanatos 
marco_m_aus_f
Elio Campitelli@aesthr Every day, automatically.
Lynn, eh?
Light The Unicorn!@aesthr Around monthly, with at least a week before the device leaves with me for something, or needs to be used for something where reliability matters to me.
Simon
noahm
Tim 🛥️🌈
Esper
f@aesthr i chose every few days, because my distros mailing list os one of the very few that is allowed on my system and i check what's going on there. so roughly weekly to monthly but latest by the end of the day once i see something on the mailing list that matters to me (like security related, not new feature related)
Dentaku (Thomas Renger)@aesthr Less often, but running unattended-upgrades everywhere.
bananamangodog@aesthr When updated packages give me bug fixes I need or features I want.
Erwin
Sibrosan
Dan Čermák@aesthr dnf-autonatic rubs daily on all my machines
Alex
Nelson
Lucas
Marcus MüllerHey, @aesthr , as you might notice a lot of people are pointing out that for most human users, that's not something that they'd ever need to do, because the graphical interface that came with the OS does it for them.
So, I wonder who's the intended audience?
I think you might have had non-technical end users OR large-organization IT admins OR developers OR software packagers in mind, but probably not all of them at once, as lumping them together w/o cohort knowledge gives a useless statistic?
So, I wonder who's the intended audience?
I think you might have had non-technical end users OR large-organization IT admins OR developers OR software packagers in mind, but probably not all of them at once, as lumping them together w/o cohort knowledge gives a useless statistic?
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Franziska
Claudius
Mercutio
Jak2k 🏳️🌈@aesthr It used to be daily because I used Silverblue. Haven't set up a cron job on NixOS yet so I just manually update every week or so for now.
diana 🏳️⚧️🦋🌱I am starting to be very selective with what gets updated and vetting the patches due to security. Can't be too safe in these times.
KerplunkHow often do you run your system's update procedure (like an `apt upgrade`, etc)?
Pretty much daily as I run a system based on Debian Sid, leaving updates too long can be problematic.
Bash alias list saves some typing
alias upd='sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade'
alias distupd='sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade --solver internal'
alias clean='sudo apt autoclean'
alias autorem='sudo apt autoremove'
J3RN 
jaKa Močnik
Mirppc@aesthr since i am on a rolling release and have Nvidia cards i update when a new Nvidia driver drops so that i can coincide a new kernel with a new driver. This allows for less downtime trying to figure out weird breakages caused by either the driver, kernel or other.
On Intel or AMD every 2-3 weeks. Mainly update apps that are often in use and high risk like Browsers and Discord more often.
Sepia Fan