• Doubletwist@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Are you updating Debian on a potato with every single one of the 74000+ packages installed? Because even on my slowest machines (going back decades) it’s never taken anywhere near that kind of time to complete a full version upgrade, let alone just an update.

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      8 months ago

      I had an update take like 20 minutes

      Though that was primarily caused by the machine having like 200kBps download speed

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      8 months ago

      It took me something like 5 hours to upgrade from Devuan ASCII to Daedalus (3 dist upgrades), and ensuring stuff still worked between versions.