Should anyone running Ubuntu as a normal user (not a server) do any of:
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt upgrade
regularly? I am asking because running apt update && apt upgrade has led to issues for me in the past. The system works fine when I do not upgrade, but I don't know if this may cause any (security) issues later on. I am aware what the difference between this commands is, but I do not know and could not find any best practices regarding their usage.
According to this post, "Many recommend that when doing a CLI update, all three commands be used":
sudo apt-get update # Fetches the list of available updates
sudo apt-get upgrade # Strictly upgrades the current packages
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade # Installs updates (new ones)
Which raises the question, in what case should I do a 'CLI update'? I like to have an up-to-date system, but not at the cost of weird issues. I am afraid that upgrading this way will cause the same issue. A more practical subquestion is: how can I upgrade my system without the virtualbox-guest-dkms, virtualbox-guest-utils, and virtualbox-guest-x11 packages (I suspect the problem is in one of those, and I'm not sure why I'd need them, so I'd rather just not have them).
