I had to move from the Gnome Desktop cuz after a second trial usage (via flashdrive) it was taking toooooo long to do almost anything.
Now on XFCE and doing dnf update over wifi.
I have interrupted this 2 times because it was taking so long. I am at the place where I guess it is finally doing installs. It showed I was on the 7th program of 1371.
Can I continue to interrupt and restart dnf update ?
Any guess as to how long it will take to finish? Dumb question as it took about 45 min to get from 1 to 7. Does it speed up later?

Being on a slow link, I can appreciate your pain - interrupt it when you need to. Where is it slow - download or installing ?. I find if it's too slow (slow mirrors or link down), it times-out itself.
That many updates looks like a version upgrade - you'd probably be best to get it all done somehow.

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I do dnf update from the command line, on a fast internet connection, and a recent Fedora 23 dnf update of 300+ packages and 500+ mb, on an ancient Core 2 duo laptop, took under 20min from start to finish.

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I don't offer much help but as an aside (from F24):

back to the matter in question. It sounds like what you need to is to update in stages. Does anyone know whether you can group update? I found this

http://dnf.baseurl.org/2014/04/23/ho...odern-day-dnf/

from where we get

I guess you need to know the groups to update and then "dnf update" once all the groups are finished.

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Thanks to all!!
Stuck with slow wifi for now. I had gnome 3 on f23 and was too quick to pull out the flash drive it was on so lost it all. Moved up to XFCE which is as fast as Slackware with XFCE so that's a happy note.
Hope someone speeds up that Gnome interface it was sloooooow after every Enter key and in between would wonder off to who knows where but I'd get 30 keystrokes ahead.
Will just interrupt in the future and not be so quick to pull the FD.

Hi, it would be good to know the specs of your PC as people may recommend other, more streamlined, distros for the hardware