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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by sounds on Monday March 06, 2017 @02:26AM (#13801218)
This is just a guess -- being very late to the conversation -- but in case someone even later is curious, this may be the well documented case of the .NET framework recompiling libraries in the background after an update.

It seems like it will never finish, but it does ... eventually. However, the lack of any UI, any indication of its presence or its progress, and also that killing it will just make it come back later are all pretty hostile.

(Google for more info.)

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by acdha on Monday March 06, 2017 @05:35PM (#13806708)
I'm not sure what it is but it's amazingly inefficient: I notice it most when downloading VMs from https://modern.ie because as soon as I start a test VM the updater will run and then it's multiple hours + reboots before a browser in the VM is remotely usable.
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