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It's not a small library.

it's featherweight compared to Windows Desktop, tho

Does Gimp load slowly for people who use KDE?

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.

How

Sometimes it does take a few seconds for me as well, but not even close to a full minute. That must’ve been on an HDD, right?

There's alot of irritation and bad general assumptions here lol. Krita, vlc, firefox, kdenlive etc exist and are amazing.

Gimp's ui is pretty bad though imo, even if it's good enough. I'd pirate and use photoshop as it is now if I could.

Is it a bad UI? Or is it a case of "I know where this thing is in Photoshop. Why isn't it in the same place in GIMP?"

wait people are supposed to use GIMP I think it was for that special level of hell for graphic designers

Yes, it's a common complaint that it doesn't use GTK 4 yet, it's still on GTK 2.

What fixes would you apply to GIMP's UI to make it better and more convenient to use?

I tried to use GIMP when my PS sub ran out and I NEEDED to get some pics edited. Good GOD it took me way too long to get used to the workspace. Workflow was cut ion half, I guess that's a thing with any new program but it took me like maybe a minute to figure out Darktable when I switched from LR.

Obviously it's an exaggeration, takes about 2 seconds for me

I just switched to linux it is incomparably faster. I just deleted the built in paint program because it is useless, way easier to just load gimp in 1 second. Libreoffice is also faster, although not that much faster.

He is using arch

IMO it's because Windows is targeted for general use so they don't bother optimizing anything. They'll just convince people that thei have aging hardware when things become slow and say stuffs like "unused RAM is wasted RAM" to justify taking up half of my memory on idle.

Even running Linux from a USB is still a way smoother experience than running Windows for me.

I thinks it caused by two reasons:

• process creation has much higher overhead on windows. On top of that, the antivirus system adds additional overhead not present in Linux because it scan every process on launch and monitor its behavior until the process finished. This result in any workflow that relies on launching a bunch of processes (e.g. make-style compilation which launch the compiler process recursively) to be very slow on Windows.
• file access on windows is also significantly slower on windows due to its filesystem filter. Also, antivirus typically hook into this filter and inspect every opened files. You can imagine this would result in significant slowdown for any workflow that relies on opening a lot of small files (e.g. compilation)

If you disable the antivirus (including windows defender) performance would definitely improve, but it'll still slower than on Linux.

In order to gain sufficient performance in windows, you'll have to use threads instead of processes (basically a single program doing everything instead of chaining multiple program Unix-style) and put your data in a single file so it can load all at once instead of in a bunch of small files loaded recursively. Basically a complete opposite of what people do on Linux.

for some reason.

bloat

I ran Atlus for a second before installing PopOS and Windows can be just as fast if you remove literally everything

Atlus suffers from the fact that it's still just windows though so all the underlying issues are still there.

Gimp loads in 500ms for me, on linux running on a mid-range SSD-using laptop.

I think you need a better PC my man. Takes me under a second for images upwards of 2000x2000.