Hmm, these days it's the security update that you want. Avoiding all updates will leave you with a vulnerable system.

I agree regarding staying well off the LTS bleeding edge, though. I usually wait around 6 months. Back in the early RedHat days, I remember waiting for the x.2 release.

My 18.04 is already beyond broken. "You have held packages" whatever it is supposed to mean.

But alas, there are now Snaps and Flatpaks, which always work. :-)

Then you should look at Debian stable for a distribution that fixes security issues while changing nothing else within a major release.

> if everything works

So I guess everyone is going to be doing an update and upgrade.