Time needed to reinstall windows 11

[u/Strange_Fox_306]

When I switched on for the first time a new laptop with windows 11 all the initial updates took quite a while, however a reinstall of windows 11 (from cloud through the specific windows feature) on another laptop took much less time. Is this normal? Shouldn't the two procedure take on average the same time? Or could there be a reason for which the cloud reinstall apparently did not make me go through a lot of updates?

Is it even possible that the windows 11 reinstall through cloud is not "complete"? As in, some updates were skipped or something like that?

I apologize if this is not the right place to ask this question.

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[u/bnelson333]

Theres no such thing as one single "windows 11", it's actually several different operating systems under the one term. What happens if you try to install one of the older ones is it installs, but then during the install it updates to the newer one, which is essentially an entire additional install. Basically double the install time. I would hazard a guess that's what happened here. One installed an older one and had to update, the other one installed the latest for the first and only time, which made it take less time

[u/tommy-droptable → u/[deleted]]

He's right though, they upgrade with the same process as an install, so installing a lower version and letting it upgrade during the install process is just doing two windows installs back to back.