Should I just run all these updates as they come up? For best practices related to security, yes. Do you all run these updates as they pop up? I’m on a distro that does automatic updates in the background. It applies those at least once a day. To be clear, this is on a derivative of Fedora*. Are you all getting this many updates on Fedora Yes. This is standard procedure on all (semi-)rolling release distros. or is it something specific to me and the apps I’m running? Nah. Is there a way to de-select some updates if I don’t want to run all of them? I believe it’s possible. But this Fedora maintainer mentions the following (and I quote): “Fedora is a major-version stable system, which means that it isn’t guaranteed safe to cherry-pick updates. The only reliable state for a major-version stable system is “fully updated”. While rpm can detect major-version changes in dependencies, it doesn’t detect minor-version changes in dependencies. That means that a package that you cherry-pick might appear to have all of its dependencies met from rpm’s point of view, but it might crash at runtime because those dependencies don’t have features that are required by the application.” Should I ignore daily updates It’s your PC. You do you. I would personally advise against it. and install them less frequently, say monthly? I have noticed that updating once every couple of days is relatively standard. I suppose it’s ‘fine’~ish as long as it doesn’t exceed two weeks. But monthly would definitely be stretching it. At that point…, perhaps considering a distro with a slower release cadence makes more sense. Meaning, I’m not super interested in being the glitch finder. If there’s a bug in an update, I’d rather have somebody else find it first and have the update patched. So…, if that’s what this is all about, then the following is worth noting: On Fedora, there’s the so-called Rawhide branch. This is basically their unstable branch and where most of the actual testing happens. You’ll (mostly) only receive updates that have already been tested in Rawhide. So, bugs/glitches and whatnot are pretty rare. But, if this is still your concern, then perhaps you should consider a distro with a slow release cadence. Which, basically comes down to picking one between Debian (on the Stable branch), openSUSE Leap and Ubuntu.