I've always waited at least two weeks to a month before installing any windows update. I've had two laptops bricked by faulty windows 10 updates in the past. I

I've always waited at least two weeks to a month before installing any windows update. I've had two laptops bricked by faulty windows 10 updates in the past. I've gone through the whole gauntlet of people trying to gaslight me with statements such as "It is impossible for a windows update to brick your computer, or get stuck in an infinite updating loop." I advise pretty much everyone I know to avoid updating important software automatically. Updates for critical software or hardware should only be done to a specific version that has been out for at least a month. Even then, always check multiple sources to ensure it won't introduce something unwieldy. But of course, that gets a bit tedious for some people. So generally I only apply it to non-security updates, hoping and praying Microsoft hasn't screwed the pooch again with one of those. (Which has happened in the past.)