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Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] Tarambor@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's a torture for seldom used Linux PCs as well. In short any PC that isn't updated for a long period of time is going to spend a long period of time updating with the possibility of breaking things.

[โ€“] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

I elaborated on another post, I can't replicate this. I manage hundreds of windows PCs and run into this problem from time to time and it's brutal slow to update. Sometimes hours.

My gaming desktop, which hardly gets used because I mainly use a steam deck now, also runs Linux. Maybe 5, 10 minutes at most to patch it.