Can somebody explain why Windows is so much slower than… basically every other OS? I mean, what does Windows-Update differently then a apt-get upgrade?
Windows updates are kind of snapshots, they replace more files than necessary and keep the old files incase the update fails or you wish to roll back x update. Besides that you’re also given new packages and features you never asked for, because Windows loves their guinea pigs and doesn’t care if something breaks because of it.
Cheers for the reminder :) I’ve been meaning to upgrade to Silverblue because one time i managed to terminally break vanilla Fedora, it isn’t so bad when you make use of a /home partition but having to set stuff up is still bleh.
AFAIK the main reason is in how windows handles the filesystem - in linux everything is a file and all files are cached by default unless that memory is needed by default, so 100% memory utilization is the norm and where Linux operates most efficiently.
In windows file caching seems architecturally be an after-thought and much less efficient - i.e. this causes handling a lot of files (like when updating the OS, where a lot of files need to be modified) to break the caching system and cause a lot of cache thrashing.
Can somebody explain why Windows is so much slower than… basically every other OS? I mean, what does Windows-Update differently then a
apt-get upgrade?Windows updates are kind of snapshots, they replace more files than necessary and keep the old files incase the update fails or you wish to roll back x update. Besides that you’re also given new packages and features you never asked for, because Windows loves their guinea pigs and doesn’t care if something breaks because of it.
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Cheers for the reminder :) I’ve been meaning to upgrade to Silverblue because one time i managed to terminally break vanilla Fedora, it isn’t so bad when you make use of a /home partition but having to set stuff up is still bleh.
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AFAIK the main reason is in how windows handles the filesystem - in linux everything is a file and all files are cached by default unless that memory is needed by default, so 100% memory utilization is the norm and where Linux operates most efficiently. In windows file caching seems architecturally be an after-thought and much less efficient - i.e. this causes handling a lot of files (like when updating the OS, where a lot of files need to be modified) to break the caching system and cause a lot of cache thrashing.
While I’m unsure of the actual reasons, the file system alone seems too be a pain.