On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 17:04:41 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'... two hours of continuous connectivity was required to get updates. It then took six hours after the release of the patch for a machine to update itself reliably.'
Bloatware? I can download/install full Linux distros in less time (and updates don't take that long either, not even a full version upgrade!).
My monthly upgrade of Debian Unstable can take an hour or more to download new versions of all the packages installed on my main machine. And it doesn’t need “continuous connectivity”: I can stop at any point, and when I start again, it will even resume a partial download of an individual package. And the “six hours” to “update reliably” might be due to the inability to replace files that are in use by running processes, because Windows insists on locking things. So the machine needs to become unusable during an update. Maybe they should hire some developers who understand how to do interruptible file transfers, just for a start ...