This is how the progress bar should look:
I got this after I got the circle of dead ring a couple of times, rebooting, etc.
But it is still very slow/stuck. Checking the Console (filtering on app store) shows lots of connection issues/retries. Mostly things like ""The connection to ACDAccountStore was invalidated." I killed the "installd" process using Activity Monitor. And downloaded manually, which was way, waaaaaay faster:
Edit: oh, btw, this is on a M1 mini with 16 GB RAM
Sebman
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