I think that is maybe the case where you use more technical applications that require elaborate environment setups… but I have a classroom of 20 Linux laptops r

I think that is maybe the case where you use more technical applications that require elaborate environment setups… but I have a classroom of 20 Linux laptops running on Ubuntu LTS and have had years of automatic updates with zero issues, and more than a decade on some of my backend systems which have been cloned through several hardware iterations. YMMV?