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I moved three relatives who's computing skill vary between "What is a file, again? Help me, my Internet is gone?!!" and "How do I use this scanner to get that document into a PDF file and send it via Thunderbird?" over to Xubuntu (Ubuntu with XFCE, 14.04). They all dutifully do the upgrades and it's very rare that I have to intervene.

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> They all dutifully do the upgrades and it's very rare that I have to intervene.

If you don't want to even worry about that, include a sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade as a cron job and everything will be up to date without them doing anything.

There are unattended upgrades for that. Though you might need to add some dpkg options such as "force-confdef" / "force-confnew".

You're not wrong, but just want to note that Ubuntu has a number of options in the graphical settings interface to control updates, including automatic installation of (either security, or all) updates.

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