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A comment on Ask HN: Why are Windows and macOS upgrades so terribly slow compared to Linux?.

Re:Ask HN: Why are Windows and macOS upgrades so terribly sl... by tssva on Thursday March 09, 2023 @08:00AM (#35080733)
> When I upgrade Windows, it frequently tells me the upgrade will take ~2 minutes, so I initiate it by rebooting, and after 20 minutes and multiple reboots, it finally gets me to the login, and first login spends ~5 minutes to login. Overall, terrible experience. Download is done in the background before doing the install, so this is just the installation process.

My Windows upgrades have never taken this long and first login has never taken ~5 minutes. On the other hand I have had upgrades between Ubuntu versions take an incredibly long time.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are Windows and macOS upgrades so terribly sl... by capableweb on Thursday March 09, 2023 @08:08AM (#35080790)
Yeah, Ubuntu upgrade process is also trash, probably the distribution I've had the most upgrade pains with. No argument there.

But the Windows issue I mentioned happened literally today, and was the reason I wrote the post in the first place. And it was on a Surface Pro 8, which is a Microsoft device so thinking it should be the best device to run Windows on. But yeah, took awful long time and login took forever compared to how fast it normally is. Running Windows 11, as it came with when I bought it.

Not really doing anything extreme with it either, the most "complex" thing I'm doing on it is running WSL2 I guess, but also a official Microsoft project and shouldn't impact the upgrade process as far as I know. The computer is just a couple of months old as well.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are Windows and macOS upgrades so terribly sl... by sophonX on Thursday March 09, 2023 @08:36AM (#35080989)
Maybe it's a customised windows 11 for surface pro. I usually have maybe 5 seconds for login ? and I can remember windows xp having to wait for 2 or 3 min to login.

Can you check if there are any startup scripts within windows or there is some sort of event registry, right ? I've not experimented that much but - there would be logs.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are Windows and macOS upgrades so terribly sl... by capableweb on Thursday March 09, 2023 @08:47AM (#35081085)
Not sure, think it's the default Windows 11, haven't noticed any differences. Usually login takes sub-second, just after this specific update that it took long time.

I have no custom startup scripts what so ever. Everything works just fine during normal operations, just that Windows updates suck and wasting my time, just like macOS.

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