It's slow even on my PCIe 4 NVMe drive. I boot into Windows once a week or two and I often see it spending more than 5 minutes installing a single update package. This is even slower than apt and dpkg, props to them.
Your installation of Windows is that by any chance the installation that came with computer? Or is it a Windows that you have upgraded from a previous version (and perhaps that was upgraded from yet another previous version)?
I never have these slow downs that I read others have. I always do a clean install from a USB stick (including deleting recovery partitions). I do this like once a year or 1 1/2 years when something is being released that is either a new version or what is we used to call a service packs.
Windows sucks at upgrading. There is always something strange going on after upgrading. Things that not happens after a clean install.
If it is looong time since you have performed a clean install, I recommend you to consider doing that.
Not to diminish package managers, I don't think they are having to be quite as clever as Windows update, at least historically. I could be wrong, but I think they are more like dependency tree managers that also download and execute new installers.
I also have a PCIe NVMe boot drive, typically i don't even notice updates until i go to shut my PC down in the evenings and windows tells me it'd like a few mins to do the updates.
Same difference to me, i was shutting it down and walking away anyway
No, but where I notice it is on my work computer that is admittedly loaded down with corporate security nonsense. My personal computer doesn't have nearly as much of an issue, but on the other hand it's an always on desktop so it's doing most of its windows update work at 3 in the morning.
Interestingly, I still use magnetic drives as a second drive on my laptops for storing data.Unfortunately most modern laptops have only one drive (NVMe), excellent for performance and less so for durability. And you better not keep it off for a couple of months.
GrayShade|4 years ago
ToFab123|4 years ago
I never have these slow downs that I read others have. I always do a clean install from a USB stick (including deleting recovery partitions). I do this like once a year or 1 1/2 years when something is being released that is either a new version or what is we used to call a service packs.
Windows sucks at upgrading. There is always something strange going on after upgrading. Things that not happens after a clean install.
If it is looong time since you have performed a clean install, I recommend you to consider doing that.
SixDouble5321|4 years ago
swarnie|4 years ago
I also have a PCIe NVMe boot drive, typically i don't even notice updates until i go to shut my PC down in the evenings and windows tells me it'd like a few mins to do the updates.
Same difference to me, i was shutting it down and walking away anyway
MikusR|4 years ago
xxpor|4 years ago
hdjjhhvvhga|4 years ago