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Your experience is not typical.
Windows only updates once a month. Rarely there is an out of band patch.
Updating after install is long, but it is optional, and it only happens the one time you install. If you’re reinstalling often then you’re doing it wrong.
I haven’t seen multiple restarts in many years.
You can always roll back an update if something goes wrong
.net updates are the worst. They appear to compile on each machine but it usually happens as a background task after restarting a restart.
But other updates are fine if you haven’t missed the previous month. They install in the background with lower priority. They download from other devices on your network, or from other devices closer to you than Microsoft’s cdn to reduce internet transit.
If you miss a month it will need to download the entire update, usually 1gb in size. Otherwise they only download a minimal amount of files.
Hotpatching is probably coming to everyone as they made it free for most business use. Updating Windows then wont require a restart except for 1-2x per year.
Yeah, Microsoft's patching schedule is so rigid that it's a meme. Anything outside of Tuesday is a patch for something under active exploit.