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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using
 Linux on the desktop"
Date: 17 Dec 2024 20:24:59 GMT
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On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 08:01:53 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

> I just spent about three hours getting my wife's desktop to boot and
> update to the newest Windows 11 update (which is why I suspect it locked
> up in the first place). Once I got Windows to boot (by disconnecting the
> hard drive and removing it from the "boot choice" in the BIOS — it took
> an hour and a half to download the update and install it — than about
> another ten minutes after rebooting... doing something or other. This is
> on a 10th generation Intel CPU, with 40 GBs of RAM, using an NVMe SSD,
> with an Internet speeds of about 650 Mbps. Heaven knows how long it
> would have taken with slower Internet, an older CPU and 8 GBs of RAM.

I don't use it but there are reports 24H2 tanked TaskManager.