Yes, the laptop always had an SSD and I know about the difference an SSD can make in terms of overall performance. However, the same comparison holds. I have a

Yes, the laptop always had an SSD and I know about the difference an SSD can make in terms of overall performance. However, the same comparison holds. I have an older backup PC in the basement with a hard drive, and it still takes just a few minutes to update in the background on Linux. Windows on that machine was simply unusable.