[GTALUG] keeping my systems updated: Windows vs Linux
Nicholas Krause
xerofoify at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 16:08:26 EST 2022
On 3/8/22 09:58, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> I want to keep my systems up to date. Not everyone does.
>
> As I understand it, Windows Update does not update the Linux portion.
> Yet another step to keep a Windows system safe as possible. My drill:
>
> - Run Windows update. If it actually applied an update, you should
> run it again in case the update enables a subsequent update (you
> cannot tell by its cheerful declaration that your system is up to
> date). Rinse and repeat.
> BTW, Windows Update seems unreasonably slow. And prone to
> inscrutable failures.
>
> - go to the Microsoft App Store and get updates. Be careful, it too
> can prematurely say that your apps are up to date.
>
> - ask the machine vendor's software if it has driver or firmware
> updates (Dell, Lenovo, HP, ...). Sometimes I have to manually
> download and install firmware updates.
>
> - for WSL: "sudo apt update" and "sudo apt full-upgrade"
>
> - for each piece of third party software, ask it if it has updates.
> This includes FireFox.
>
> My Linux drill:
>
> - [Fedora] "sudo dnf update"
> [debian family] "sudo apt update" and "sudo apt full-upgrade"
>
> - once in a while: "sudo fwupdmgr get-updates".
> If the vendor doesn't support the Linux Firmware project, another
> process is required (maybe involving Windows).
>
> Linux sure wins here!
I did this a while ago, but I noticed that exes were about twice as slow
as yum at the time. It was even worse for apt, about 3 times. Windows
packaging in exes is not that fast is the problem. If we're talking speed,
packaging in Arch wins. Even in a VM with 2GB
of RAM and 2 cores. It was able to do the install portion of 500MB
of software in 32-33 seconds. I believe that's 30 plus packages from
memory.
Nick
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