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Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs (www.theregister.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Windows 10 to 11, or feature updates, are the worst. Sometimes literal hours with adequate RAM, storage space, and NVME drive. It's insane.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Half the time it’s not even doing anything. Minimal CPU and disk usage. They want update to be a background thing, but sometimes I just want it to hurry up and be over with.

    MS must be listening to me. I just did todays update and it had my CPUs E cores pegged at 100% usage for a few minutes installing updates.

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  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    No they aren’t.

    Feature updates take the same amount of time as monthly updates. It’s been like this for years.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Recently spent almost four hours waiting for Windows Update on a brand-new PC. It wasn’t even apparent how long it would take, just kept grinding, rebooting, and grinding again.

    For a three-decade OS that many bright programmers have worked on, Windows update sucks royally.

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