Note that at least on Debian, the unattended-upgrades package only, by default, does security updates. While those are the most important ones, if you want various bugfixes and such, you probably do want to at least occasionally do an update yourself.
On my laptop with LMDE, which is basically Debian, I’ve configured it to update everything. The only thing left out are flatpaks which I update when I remember.
I’ve set up unattended upgrades and forgot about updates, until I get a mail saying they happened.
Note that at least on Debian, the
unattended-upgradespackage only, by default, does security updates. While those are the most important ones, if you want various bugfixes and such, you probably do want to at least occasionally do an update yourself.On my laptop with LMDE, which is basically Debian, I’ve configured it to update everything. The only thing left out are flatpaks which I update when I remember.