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>40% smaller Windows Updates Was there anything about faster updates? Why does the Windows Update service take 50%+ of my CPU and multiple minutes to figure o

by xxpor 5y ago

>40% smaller Windows Updates Was there anything about faster updates? Why does the Windows Update service take 50%+ of my CPU and multiple minutes to figure out if there's any updates available for me? I get Windows doesn't have a package manager, but given yum and deb can figure out the answer in seconds... there has to be some way to improve that.

encryptluks2 5y ago
Actually Windows does have a package manager now, it is called winget.
- xxpor 5y ago
  So when is MS going to start using it for basic OS stuff? :)
  - userbinator 5y ago
    Hopefully once it's actually usable, which might be a long time away --- the last I looked, it didn't even support dependencies or uninstalling...
    - encryptluks2 5y ago
      Well, I guess you haven't looked recently.
      - userbinator 5y ago
        https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/blob/master/doc/windows-package-manager-v1-roadmap.md https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/blob/master/doc/wind... Uninstallation is now "experimental", and dependency support is still missing. The latter is what I'd consider a core functionality of a package manager, so my original comment stands.
        encryptluks2 5y ago
        Version 1.0 is out. Uninstall is no longer experimental. You really should do some more research again. You are doing yourself no service by being so smug.
- diffeomorphism 5y ago
  That still cannot even uninstall anything, right? That was promised as some time "in the future".
  - encryptluks2 5y ago
    It can uninstall. Version 1.0 is out and uninstall is no longer experimental.
ksec 5y ago
>Was there anything about faster updates?.... That is the thing. Modern days update are slow down because we spend more time computing the difference of update, check sum and other things and very little at transferring. We now have very decent CDN ( or at least they should it really is table stake in 2021 for Microsoft ) and bandwidth should be limited by last mile. Smaller Update seems like a marketing point they want to make. I want faster update in total time.

by xxpor 5y ago

encryptluks2 5y ago

Actually Windows does have a package manager now, it is called winget.

xxpor 5y ago
So when is MS going to start using it for basic OS stuff? :)
- userbinator 5y ago
  Hopefully once it's actually usable, which might be a long time away --- the last I looked, it didn't even support dependencies or uninstalling...
  - encryptluks2 5y ago
    Well, I guess you haven't looked recently.
    - userbinator 5y ago
      https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/blob/master/doc/windows-package-manager-v1-roadmap.md https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/blob/master/doc/wind... Uninstallation is now "experimental", and dependency support is still missing. The latter is what I'd consider a core functionality of a package manager, so my original comment stands.
      - encryptluks2 5y ago
        Version 1.0 is out. Uninstall is no longer experimental. You really should do some more research again. You are doing yourself no service by being so smug.
diffeomorphism 5y ago
That still cannot even uninstall anything, right? That was promised as some time "in the future".
- encryptluks2 5y ago
  It can uninstall. Version 1.0 is out and uninstall is no longer experimental.

ksec 5y ago

>Was there anything about faster updates?.... That is the thing. Modern days update are slow down because we spend more time computing the difference of update, check sum and other things and very little at transferring. We now have very decent CDN ( or at least they should it really is table stake in 2021 for Microsoft ) and bandwidth should be limited by last mile. Smaller Update seems like a marketing point they want to make. I want faster update in total time.