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[LUG]Re: Just a Muse

 

On 22/05/2023 14:22, maceion@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Windows quite often rewrites the entire Windows OS, so there exist Windows-OLD and Windows (new install). This takes time and means a separate file is created for Windows -old.
 This was explanation I saw a few years ago on a help desk forum.
Eion MacDonald

On 22/05/2023 13:07, David Bell wrote:
Why do Windows and Apple updates take so long to install, whilst GNU
Linux take only a few seconds?

David
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Probably because Windows updates are less frequent, so need to update more at once /and/ they're backward compatible, again updating more at once.

Kind regards,

Julian

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