I don’t think so, as I tried a laptop that used to work but hasn’t had updates either from Windows or the av provider for months and it also doesn’t work (thus seeming to eliminate a windows patch as well). My current guess is something changed in the repository or bit rot in a component such as libgit2, but that should also affect linux and it doesn’t appear to be. At present I’m rebuilding my Windows dev setup to try and get to the point of being able to debug the transaction on windows (which is going to be exciting because I have to use some Microsoft debugger rather than gdb …). That of course is made harder because I never got libgit2 to work properly even when updates were working correctly.
Peter