• msage@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    Yes, because even once is too many.

    In a corporate, I spent an hour and half every morning waiting for Windows to update. Then my coworker handed me Fedora DVD and I never looked back.

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      8 months ago

      I’m saying it’s never happened to me. Not once. Zero times. Zero is less than one.

      Normal Windows updates don’t take an hour long. Give me a break. The ones that do are the version upgrades. That’s like the equivalent of a distro upgrade.

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        8 months ago

        Sure, your experience may be different.

        That happened in 2013 with random laptop they gave me. I kid you not it took that long, could have been a bug somewhere in the OEM, never cared enough to find out.

        But my experience is just as real as much as yours.

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        8 months ago

        Normal Windows updates don’t take an hour

        Correct. But who can tell the difference beforehand between a normal update and an abnormal one? The problem is Windows tends to hide those details. I’ve sat on support calls where a server needs to be rebooted for some configuration change, and Windows insists on applying updates because hey, you’re rebooting anyway, so what if it takes 1/2 hour to do this thing that should take 5 minutes…