I have prepared some USB thumb drive and installed the latest ThinLinux successfully on quite a number of DELL Wyse 3040 thin clients.

When I now did another installtion, the thin client happened to be connected to the network/internet during the installation process - and this seems to make a huge difference...

The installation now was different as it obviously was downloading software/packages from the internet - and it was taking hours (and I actually had to cancel it) instead of like 20 minutes.

So my question is: Would it make sense to accept the slow installation because the internet sources are more up to date? 

Any hint is appreciated very much!