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    [–] everett@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    Debian and Ubuntu installers do the same thing, and have for quite some time. You can cancel when you see it start grabbing apt sources, or just be offline.

    [–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    It doesn't take forever tho. Because it just goes directly to the latest package versions.

    Also I recall there being checkbox on whether to do it when starting the install if you're online. No need to override the system into allowing you to do an offline install.

    [–] everett@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

    It can take forever, depending how many packages have changed since release, and mirror speed. Also pretty sure there's no checkbox, though that could have changed at some point.

    (Fwiw, I'm not here to say "Windows good" or anything.)

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    It doesn’t take forever tho. Because it just goes directly to the latest package versions.

    I had trash wifi reception, and it took over an hour

    [–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

    now i'm wondering how long it'd take for windows to install with a bad connection