• donuts@kbin.social
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    3 years ago

    Everything loads slower on Windows. I’ve run programs through fucking Wine that still load faster than they do on Windows.

  • Album@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Linux loads the gtk libs when your desktop starts because it’s a major component of gnu/gnome. Windows doesn’t until you launch an app that would use it. It’s not a small library.

      • Album@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 years ago

        I don’t use KDE any more so I don’t follow closely. But it used to be significantly slower. I recall some years back they were working to change KDE loading of gtk libs but I’m not sure what came out of that

    • pilaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 years ago

      But GIMP uses GTK 2 (unless you’re using the 3.0 beta), while GNOME and most other GTK-based DEs use GTK 3 (or maybe 4 now?), so the OS still has to load GTK 2 for GIMP on a cold run.