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Re:Microsoft announces Windows 11 by xxpor on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:24PM (#27621844)
>40% smaller Windows Updates

Was there anything about faster updates?

Why does the Windows Update service take 50%+ of my CPU and multiple minutes to figure out if there's any updates available for me?

I get Windows doesn't have a package manager, but given yum and deb can figure out the answer in seconds... there has to be some way to improve that.

Re:Microsoft announces Windows 11 by ksec on Friday June 25, 2021 @03:03AM (#27627921)
>Was there anything about faster updates?....

That is the thing. Modern days update are slow down because we spend more time computing the difference of update, check sum and other things and very little at transferring.

We now have very decent CDN ( or at least they should it really is table stake in 2021 for Microsoft ) and bandwidth should be limited by last mile.

Smaller Update seems like a marketing point they want to make. I want faster update in total time.

Re:Microsoft announces Windows 11 by encryptluks2 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @03:09PM (#27622456)
Actually Windows does have a package manager now, it is called winget.
Re:Microsoft announces Windows 11 by xxpor on Thursday June 24, 2021 @03:15PM (#27622533)
So when is MS going to start using it for basic OS stuff? :)
Re:Microsoft announces Windows 11 by userbinator on Thursday June 24, 2021 @03:42PM (#27622848)
Hopefully once it's actually usable, which might be a long time away --- the last I looked, it didn't even support dependencies or uninstalling...
Re:Microsoft announces Windows 11 by encryptluks2 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @04:22PM (#27623276)
Well, I guess you haven't looked recently.
Re:Microsoft announces Windows 11 by userbinator on Thursday June 24, 2021 @08:00PM (#27625486)
https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/blob/master/doc/wind...

Uninstallation is now "experimental", and dependency support is still missing. The latter is what I'd consider a core functionality of a package manager, so my original comment stands.

Re:Microsoft announces Windows 11 by encryptluks2 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @09:30PM (#27626168)
Version 1.0 is out. Uninstall is no longer experimental. You really should do some more research again. You are doing yourself no service by being so smug.
Re:Microsoft announces Windows 11 by diffeomorphism on Friday June 25, 2021 @01:44AM (#27627513)
That still cannot even uninstall anything, right? That was promised as some time "in the future".
Re:Microsoft announces Windows 11 by encryptluks2 on Friday June 25, 2021 @01:45PM (#27634020)
It can uninstall. Version 1.0 is out and uninstall is no longer experimental.