Every day. There's no point being an a bleeding edge distro if you're not riding the edge 🤣

every 7 days

Infrequently (when I remember)

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.

Whenever I'm bored and can't think of anything else to do

When I remember, or when something breaks

Counter-question: how do linux releases roll?

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 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 usually.

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)

Every few days on the machines I use daily, but I have a couple spare laptops which I only use infrequently, and I usually don't run into any major problems when I have to make a big set of updates on a machine I am using for the first time in a few months.

twice or thrice a day. i have seen problems happening if you wait more than week (signatures not matching and stuff). Also I have a mostly automated setup (essentially sudo password read from password manager into std input of sudo -S sh -c "yes | pacman -Syu ", yes command will update the packages.) since i manually trigger it, if i know i do not have internet or not in a situation to deal with it in case something goes wrong (last happened more than 2 years ago), then i do not. I also see the command's output which lists all packages updated, so if there is something that requires reboot, i will reboot soon.

Once a week and only when I have time to potentially fix something that breaks. Usually because of something I did. Nobody told me I'd have to deal with config file changes in etc. Pacnew in my case. Had to discover that on my own.

Using diff with meld makes it pretty simple. I missed a line in one file recently and SDDM stopped automatically starting on boot. Growing pains. Plus I threw myself in the deep end to learn faster with a rolling release but that's just how I operate.

Part of me welcomes breakage because that's how I got gud at bending Windows to my will as a kid.

Exceptions of course if there's a new feature I want to try out ASAP.

Once a week

Every week or so