> Compare this to an 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' or the OS X Software Update There was a major update to Arch recently - due to GCC 5 changing the stan

> Compare this to an 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' or the OS X Software Update There was a major update to Arch recently - due to GCC 5 changing the standard C++ library with binary interface changes. Basically every package written in C++ and compiled with GCC needed re-compiling and updating. Mine took about an hour to update (6 year old machine) - with over 500 packages updated. Of course everything kept running, but I chose to reboot since it was such a major change and everything worked flawlessly. Kudos to the whole Arch team. But take a minute to think about that - it's a major percentage of the whole system updated. Updating my Windows machines in comparison is terrible - the amount of time and effort is so variable, plus having to be careful to avoid or remove the dreaded tracking updates backported from Windows 10.