Brand new, out of the box. It’s been sitting here at 100% for 5 minutes.

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    Can somebody explain why Windows is so much slower than… basically every other OS? I mean, what does Windows-Update differently then a apt-get upgrade?

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      Windows updates are kind of snapshots, they replace more files than necessary and keep the old files incase the update fails or you wish to roll back x update. Besides that you’re also given new packages and features you never asked for, because Windows loves their guinea pigs and doesn’t care if something breaks because of it.

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        Funny things that immutable OS like MicroOs or Silverblue do that 1000 times more efficiently and you can even continue usyn system normally. Update applies after reboot.

        Windows is just a pile of crap put together with a duct tape and chewing gum. They did no significant progress in decades.

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      AFAIK the main reason is in how windows handles the filesystem - in linux everything is a file and all files are cached by default unless that memory is needed by default, so 100% memory utilization is the norm and where Linux operates most efficiently. In windows file caching seems architecturally be an after-thought and much less efficient - i.e. this causes handling a lot of files (like when updating the OS, where a lot of files need to be modified) to break the caching system and cause a lot of cache thrashing.

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      While I’m unsure of the actual reasons, the file system alone seems too be a pain.

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    Half the time when i update on linux, less space is used by the updates…

    Total update size: -56mb.

    Beat that, windoze.

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    Arch: 30sec for update, 2min for full system upgrade

    Kubuntu: 2min for update, 10min for full system upgrade

    Windows: 5min for update, 30min for full system upgrade

    Ubuntu: Please close firefox so i can install update. You closed it? Well… the update can wait.

    Gentoo: 💀

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      NixOS: Update channels/update flake.lock, and wait till your system/flake updates, then reboot. If you mess up, then roll back.

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        At the moment i am actually quite a happy 🐧 with Gentoo. While the update “experience” is much worse than everything i know, i think source based distributions are just next-level open source (though compiling is too resource intensive for office computers).
        And because my PC is really fast, i let it update every weekend for like 1h or so while i am cooking (food, not myself with the heat of my PC).

        There is just one nagging thought always in my mind: What if the istallation breaks, and i am unable to fix it? I will never remember all the changes i made to all the config files, which packages i installed and in which order i installed them. It’s going to take months to get to where i am now.
        That’s why i have been thinking about using NixOS ❄ next time, once Gentoo breaks. The idea of configuring everything from one location and just having to copy one configuration file/folder seems almost to good to be true.
        The internet even claims NixOS to be source based, however when i installed it in a VM, the installation was way to fast to be source based.

        Maybe i was missing something in the configuration. i will definitely look into it once my beloved current install falls apart.

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          The internet even claims NixOS to be source based.

          What’s not in Nixpkgs is built from source. Everything else are binaries either from the binary cache, like Nixpkgs, or Cachix.

          There is just one nagging thought always in my mind: What if the istallation breaks, and i am unable to fix it? I will never remember all the changes i made to all the config files, which packages i installed and in which order i installed them. It’s going to take months to get to where i am now.

          Oh, and you don’t actually have to use NixOS to have a reproducible system. You can learn Ansible and self-provision your system on any distro that exists. Though if you personally hate :redhat: then you can write your setup script in any programming language, if you know some. Or just back them up. You can abuse GitHub for a complete backup of your system, since they don’t care how much space you’ve taken on your git repo.

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    Ubuntu: please restart to finalise the update.

    Firefox: please restart Firefox as it has been updated.

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      The problem isn’t necessarily the restart itself. It’s the frequency and amount of time windows spends at 0 and 100% before finally doing something and the amount of times I get frustrated and just pull power.

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      I also hate that Firefox does it, and at least it doesn’t “Please wait, we’re running du bs=8g if=/dev/random of=/hello” every time

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    you would think that the death of hdd makes windows updates bearable and this shows. manufacturers still find a way to budget the SSD so much that you want to install Linux either way. like not too long ago i got a wd blue and it’s slower than expected. no problem with Fedora though :D