Yes, I keep an old laptop around with Windows 10, which sometimes goes months without powering on. When I do boot it again, it potentially takes hours of non-de

Yes, I keep an old laptop around with Windows 10, which sometimes goes months without powering on. When I do boot it again, it potentially takes hours of non-deterministically finding and downloading and installing updates over multiple reboots. Compare to powering on a Linux machine and bringing it up-to-date in one shot with "sudo dnf upgrade."