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On my personal Linux machines I update daily. I have an update alias for all my package managers, I type it once a day to keep everything update. I run that command in the background while working, usually it doesn't even require a reboot.
On the production Linux cluster that I manage at work, I update once a week.
I have a Windows boot that I use exclusively for gaming, but I don't game too much these days. So about once q month I open it and try to keep up with updates. Unfortunately it's a tedious and time consuming concept. Windows Update takes a long time and requires multiple reboots. Then many drivers and software require their own updates. Now to mention the games themselves which sometimes have 50GB updates. It easily takes me over an hour to get everything updated to my standards.
Interesting, I always avoid updating as much as I can whenever I work on something because 3/4 of the time something starts to act wonky resulting in me needing to close everything down and reboot.
I would imagine having to deal with it for that long every time would make you wanna game even less. I am so glad that 95% of games work fine on Linux nowadays.