Right. I had a demo laptop turned off for most of a year, and when I turned it back on, it took half an hour while Windows updated. All laptops are now on Linux.
Every single day there is something to update.
I've yet to experience either of those behaviors in my daily usage of Arch, Debian and Unraid, or in my sporadic use of a few other distributions.
And if getting philosophical if they are Linux distributions or not, ChromeOS and Android (PlayStore).