On Wednesday, December 2, 2020 5:39:38 AM WET Samuel Sieb wrote:

> Notebook hard drives are really slow now, but I've never seen one take

> that long.

I saw. :-)

[Oh, wait let me change that emoji to :-( ;-)]

> This is why I put SSDs in everything.

And as you correctly point this is the main issue. A SSD in an old computer will make the computer fly because in some cases the performance bottleneck is the I/O component, and that clearly is the case when installing/updating thousand of packages.

Jos� Matos