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
On 3/8/22 09:58, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: 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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