Use debian oldstable, usually 1-2 security updates each months, nothing else. If you need a newer app, install it as flatpak, they can't bork your system.

what are you using?

DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS

With Debian it's more like "cool, everything still works as expected."

Source: I don't use Arch btw.

Your arch system would probably have updates unless you just updated within the last few minutes. Being suprised seems a bit unnecessary.

If you're on Arch, then you want those tasty hourly updates om nom nom

source: I use Arch btw

On fedora atomic all updates are automatic. I don't even see that they happen. They just happen in the background. I love it.

If you're not paying for the support, then you are the support.

Canonical already maintains security patches for paying customers so they aren't actually doing any extra work, but putting it behind a subscription gives them an option to start charging more for desktops, gives clear cost for server use, and maybe is marketing for "look at the premium work we do".

It you are a business then you pay for the product.

there is something very satisfying about running pacman -Syu at the end of the day and watching it update the repos, give you a neat list of packages to be upgraded, then see them downloading over all your threads with that little chomp chomp pacman animation, disappearing one by one, or a bunch at once, and then at the end it runs the hooks and you see that [1/23] fill up all the way to [23/23] in the span of a minute...

It's like popping bubble wrap, but you have 8 hands and 8 bubble sheets and never try to pop the tame bubble twice