Comment by goodmythical

I honestly can't remember the last time an update broke anything for me in 20 years of linux, and rolling back to last stable has always been easy.

That's across various Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and even a crunchbang install.

In the past, especially on my custom desktop with uncommon GPU, sound card, and wifi chip, I'd check for compatibility and give it a few days after releases were announced to see if there were any user reported bugs. Knowing that devs prioritize compatibility for the most common devices first, I may have to wait my turn. If no, update. If yes, check for available solutions, update, apply solutions. If no solutions, wait.

But, for instance, currently I've been updating this Fedora 44 lenovo with the crunchy kernel roughly weekly for about a year, have been doing so blindly (just sudo dnf update && reboot before bed), and have not had a single problem in all of that time.

It's the same model as Windows- don't do shit before you know. You don't just install random garbage on a Windows machine, and you certainly don't allow automatic updates that re-enable features you've disabled, disable your ability to disable those features, break your menus, put ads on your lockscreen, put ads on your desktop, put ads in your menu, break hibernation, break wifi printing, or whatever other insane shit they've done in the last few years. You wait to update until you know all that broken shit has been removed or stay on XP until they pry it from your bloody knuckles or trust that some random dev doesn't have spyware in that de-bloated iso you've been thinking about.

Linux currently receives development from Intel, AMD, nvidia, google, facebook, qualcomm, amazon, and even Microsoft. Long gone are the days of the wild west governed by but a few.