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Tue, 28 Sep 2021 11:03:08 +0200

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Edward Snowden [bot] wrote the following post Tue, 28 Sep 2021 01:35:02 +0200

It's impossible to replace a default @Windows installation with a Linux distro without feeling better about yourself.

...or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.

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Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:39:25 +0200

Wilco Roos

wroos@diasp.org

Every visit to my parents (RIP) I had to update the Windows (she refused to use anything else) machine she used. When started, it went on every single time for 90+ minutes before the damn machine was ready with all updates for MS Shite, anti-virus crap, anti trojan and malware stuff, firewall and whatever more was needed to keep the machine just a little bit safe :-(

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:43:28 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

I use Windows every now and then for a game, so I know exactly what you mean: updating Windows after not having done so for a few weeks takes ages.

And I don't really understand why those updates have to be tens of gigabytes. Bloatware.

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:31:37 +0200

Wilco Roos

wroos@diasp.org

Indeed, but even a small one takes forever and a day, really weird, not a clue what the heck they are doing to take that long. I suspect they do not use incremental backups or even just replace the (loose) parts that need replacing, but they replace the whole shabang and caboodle.