Yep- love linux update system- it runs very very quickly- Windows updates are horrendously slow- have to reboot after downloading and installing a few updates- the updates are very large- and take forever to download- i find I’m doing several hours of downloads (I do them manually in windows 7) whenever i reformat and reinstall windows 7- and then days figuring out all the os tweaks i need-
Not so with linux- install, update in about 20 minutes or less- and all the os tweaks are done very quickly- I’m back to running in just a few hours- but even quicker IF I’ve done a timeshift backup- (Course i could do that in windows too- but my goodness, the backups take several hours in windows compared to just about 10 minutes in linux- )
Does anyone have a much quicker way to back up windows? I’m using Macrium Reflect, but it’s a few hours to run- (I do have a number of large games on it- but still)- I have read about Aomei backerupper, which a lot of folks seem to like- but found out it’s a chinese company?-
I run win 7 pro but never ever let it connect to the internet and have updates completely turned off. It’s running just as nice as it was when first installed. Should be that way forever. The more you update windows, the slower it gets. If I never connect to the internet, I have no reason to install security updates. What am I securing against? network/internet. I don’t connect to either so the OS is isolated. There are only two windows programs I use and neither require a connection.
Something I plan to do with my next full linux install is to create a partition for the Home folder. Makes it super quick to swap flavors.
Windows is different because config files go in all kinds of places plus you have the windows registry. Docs and stuff are easy enough. There is a windows docs & settings export/import but I’ve never used it.