Yes. Updates may contain additional features, bug fix or security patches and it is good to maintain your packages up-to-date. For a basic user, I think you can update your packages anytime you want. But if you are using a newly installed Ubuntu, I really recommend that you update first all of the outdated package before doing other things.
Yes. Updates may contain additional features, bug fix or security patches and it is good to maintain your packages up-to-date. For a basic user, I think you can update your packages anytime you want. But if you are using a newly installed Ubuntu, I really recommend that you update first all of the outdated package before doing other things.