My W11 machine works the same as Daniel’s. Updates are pretty quick.
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Maybe W11 fixed some of the W10 and previous W’s issues.
Maybe Microsoft now provide adequate servers for their repos,
I doubt that!!!
They always have!!!
I use W10 on my laptop and W11 on my work machine, the laptop is slower, just because it is not the machine, my work machine is, but it still updates just fine. Have you actually built a machine, too just run W10 or W11?
I once bought a refurbished box, with W10 installed.
It is the one I run Gentoo on now. W10 ran OK, but updates were a nightmare. I had a reasonable internet link then… about 4Mbps… enough to play a video.
Maybe I should reinstall it and try again now I have 50Mbps.?
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The only time patching has been painful for me on Windows is for the initial install. Then it’s a patch, reboot, patch, process that goes around a few times before you are completely caught up.
Also, that was more than a year or maybe two ago. I think the standard monthly patch now is a rollup patch. That way you don’t have to install all the outstanding patches, because the new one contains all the previous patches. That might make the monthly patches larger but maybe overall it’s a better experience.
Ha, I see today is my cake day. Happy cake day to me!
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Time is motion. So keep moving.
Happy day
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Happy cake day!!!
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Goddamn I miss the days when we ONLY PATCHED if it fixed something that was broken in our environment!
Technically it may be difficult to be selective with patches.
Dependencies tend to dictate what gets upgraded.
I wonder if it would still be possible to run , say FreeBSD 2.1
with a heap of patches? It worked for me once, did everthing
I wanted, why not today?
This old adage may apply
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe, the horse was lost.
For want of a horse, the rider was lost.
For want of a rider, the battle was lost.
For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
Some say it is an illustration of chaos theory … ie a small error left unpatched at the beginning may have a large effect later on.
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Ditto. (same here)
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Hi Neville,
Have you tried disabling automatic updates or unattended-upgrades?
Jorge
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I did not even know such things existed… I thought everything was manual in Debian.
I shall look
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