>What is there to gain on a running device except angry users due to breakages of already working functionality? That's true, but regular distros are also face

>What is there to gain on a running device except angry users due to breakages of already working functionality? That's true, but regular distros are also faced with the same dilemma, and you see both cases. RH will patch a kernel to death ship of Theseus style for a decade, whereas Canonical offers newer stable kernel releases (although they also maintain the original kernel that the distro shipped with). Canonical leans more towards updating to a newer kernel version though. >There's an upwards trend of people DISABLING updates because they tend to break tools they use in daily lives. The general public is affected more by questionable updates higher up in the stack. I doubt if they interact directly with the kernel.