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i reduced the updates size by 100% using Linux, hehe

I upvoted you, because you know what: you're right. I shake my head at all the tomfoolery that Windows users are expected to go through.

Seriously, Microsoft blather on about compelling experience this, rich interface that, but the whole thing seems a nightmare to me. What's more, it's been "normalised". People go through all this garbage and they rave about how good Windows is.

Any concrete complaints?

I, for one, hate how disregarded the system makes me feel. The experience is much closer to a remotely managed computer, like the workstation I have at my day job, than to using a personal computer.

This applies to how the updates are handled, the telemetry stuff in general, the way the Control Panel and other settings are arranged, and so on. It's hard to pinpoint one specific thing, because the whole system is steered in this direction.

Wonder how Delta RPMs do this, I am a Fedora user.

This must be how delta rpms work right? Because why would they contain backwards data? They only contain new data, and the diff between old and new data.

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