How Often Should You Update Arch Linux?

Once an hour? I do it every minute

Just run yay as a fidget toy

i still update every single day if not more while i do get to use my computers

I use NixOS btw...

I'm so guilty of this, I keep forgetting I have a rolling release, and often leave it un updated for weeks on end
edit: I just updated right now and it was 128 packages

I usually update once a day, being on EndeavourOS. The updates usually takes less than 20 sec to download and install, unless if it is a new kernel version or if there is load on the servers. I am happy with once a day basically because it is sooooooo fast.

Left Manjaro around 6 months on my backup machine - all my keys are broken :(

as an arch user, i update when i go to install a package, or once a week or two

After doing a lot of distro hopping I was previously happy with Fedora KDE but the new release (36) had some problems for me so I recently switched to EndeavourOS KDE. I was a little worried about something breaking because people say rolling release distros are unstable but I've had no problems at all, it's been rock solid for me so far and lightning fast, much snappier than anything else I've tried and gaming performance has been amazing too. I haven't had to keep adding repositories to get all the software I want and possibly breaking something on an update, because everything has either been in the official Arch repositories or the AUR, I have been updating daily because I've been installating the software I need and doing some tinkering to set it up how I want it but now I can probably update once a week. EndeavourOS has been the best Linux experience for me.

For me it basically happens very often, simply because I am very active with Arch.
And since the general advice is to upgrade (-Syu) at te same time you install any new package, it often hapens more or less automatically.
Note that I personally use a self-written script in which I also do these things:

pacman -Qdt && sudo pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qdtq)
For removing any unused packages that are only dependencies.

paccache -rvvv && paccache -ruvvvk0
For cleaning up the package cache (/var/cache/pacman/pkg/) older than 3 updates ago and packages that are removed.

The script also contains a completely automated git pull & makepkg -csi with which I automatically update my list of installed AUR and other PKGBUILD packages (that I keep in a folder such that just git pull is enough).

Furthermore I use the informant tool for a Gentoo style newsreader, so as to never mis any important news from the Arch website.

I use this method on all my Arch systems, including a NAS that uses ZFS on Linux from archzfs for my storage pool (system root of Arch itself is still Btrfs).

It obviously depends on what the user is after, for me every 3 months more than enough. No need to be on the latest of the latest for no reason at all.

I'm running arch and basically I update every day.
I'm a dev so I kinda want to be able to use the latest libraries and or latest versions of my IDEs because lately the jetbrains suite gets some nice improvements.
So for me it makes sense to update once a day on my desktop but on my old laptop that I use as a server I do it ever so often and it's like around once a month.
Then for my current laptop that I don't even use that much since I work from home, well the updates are made whenever I turn it on (which can be a fairly long time) but I try to update it once month still

always update arch once your backup is done, never before

It's recommended that the maximum amount of time between updates is 1 week

Did you say 100 packages could happen to person updating every day? How? How much packages he needs to have for that to happen. I have just checked on my other machine that was updated 10 days ago and I have 56 packages available. I've rarely seen a lot more especially if I update more often

I update my arch systems once every week or 2. I set aside time on Sunday to do it.

WHO'S UPDATING ONCE AN HOUR?! 😨
You do not need to update your system that often. I don't think I updated that often even when I was new to rolling release distros. :(
Edit: I used a script to convert Manjaro, which was installed when I made the mistake of putting /* instead of ./* with the rm command at like 12AM and didn't have time to reinstall Arch, to vanilla Arch so I could say this. Am I proud of it? Actually yes.
I use Arch btw. :3

There is a framework tablet now!

Bleeding edge is just a different word for "broken".