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My own experience matches OP, I never have a Linux update take more than 5 minutes or so. I used to run a Windows VM for the occasional proprietary windows pro
by bityard 4y ago
My own experience matches OP, I never have a Linux update take more than 5 minutes or so.
I used to run a Windows VM for the occasional proprietary windows program (generally some hobby-related thing) but every time I fired up that VM, it would force an update and basically be completely unusable for 45 minutes or more, just so that I could do 5 minutes of work on it. My time is more valuable than that, so I just simply don't use it anymore and have accepted that Windows is unavailable to me.
- capableweb 4y agoYou raise another good point which I didn't even consider. When I upgrade my Linux computers, I can more often than not continue working like nothing is happening, while the installation finishes. Only issue is nvidia drivers which require a reboot after finishing the upgrade, otherwise applications like Alacritty doesn't open anymore. Usually I work around this by upgrading everything but nvidia the first time, then do the nvidia update separately. And once full update is finished, you do a normal reboot and everything is complete. But with Windows and macOS, you're dead in the water while the process is being done, so even if you wanted to, you couldn't continue working.
- privacyking 4y agoYou can probably work around that issue by having a script automatically backup the old kernel modules and restoring them after the upgrade. I use one for arch