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Microsoft reduced Windows 11 update size by 40%
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/how-microsoft-reduced-windows-11-update-size-by-40/ba-p/2839794
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Too late, I'm installing Ubuntu right now :)
Hope you don't have a laptop because your battery life is going to suck.
Not if you use TLP or acpi, I have a lenovo e495 that's two years old almost still getting 6+ hours out of it with TLP even with the power hogs that Ryzen Mobile chips can be when using a second display.
The bigger issue is Nvidia drivers for those with those chips but I got the gf's working just fine (with great battery life) just required I do a little trial and error after some r-e-s-e-a-r-c-h
The bigger issue is Nvidia drivers for those with those chips but I got the gf's working just fine (with great battery life) just required I do a little trial and error after some r-e-s-e-a-r-c-h
Multiple other systems have two system partitions, and update the one that is not currently used.
Game launchers (eg. Steam, GOG, itch) use similar approach, where instead of in-place update they update on copy, and after all files were successfully updated they move the copies to the original space. This approach has a downside - game temporarily can take two times the space, which for some 100+GB games is a problem. I guess not for long, since with fast console disks in the new generations game devs are beginning to use extremely succesfull compression algorithms, like Rad Game Tools' Kraken.