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I also sometimes (but often enough, including a time this week) hear people discuss to not install updates because of this and that.
but then if I think about it, I have trained myself too to this:
TV I agree, my LG updated and now streaming video is broken.
For android phone GrapheneOS.
I haven't found Linux to be fragile. I think that is distro dependent.
I'm on same OpenSUSE (with version upgrades) since 2017. Every update has been fine, only time it was an issue is when nVidia driver got ahead of the kernel for a few days. But OpenSUSE you just choose the previous snapshot.
My wife's laptops is NixOS for maybe 3 years now, no issues.
it does not fix a lot of the bullshit changes
But you can install older versions , or choose when you update