It’s useful to have updated drivers if a game or something isn’t working, otherwise it’s hardly a big deal, just need to keep the sysyem as up to date as it needs to run your sysyem, i’m on mint since October and never uad any headaches, even updates drivers recently to try to resolve an issue.

It’s to do with the amount of people that were killed in WW1, essentially the sheer number of people that died during the war resulted in a generation nearly ceasing to exist.