GIMP (credit to mrAnmolv)

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.

pro-tip you can run gimp on WSL2 and have its xwindow appear within windows just like a normal application. The ONLY way to run gimp on windows imo.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-apps

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

It's been a while since I've used GIMP, but I recall even loading it on Linux taking over a minute.

Wait, so are people going to claim that the start-up speed is the problem with GIMP on Windows and not the god awful UI? This is the problem with the Linux crowd. You guys write software to write software and not because you are a user of that software. A clunky UI - which is far, far too common on open source applications - will cost someone a heck of a lot more than a few seconds in getting work done.

What specs do you have that makes GIMP load in 2 milliseconds?

krita 😊

Everything seems to be way faster on Linux than on windows for some reason.

On one occasion I tested a build that took ~10 min on windows, in a Linux VM installed on the same machine, it finished in ~1min.

I have searched around for an answer for quite some time now, I could not find any definitive reason. Some say that process creation is slower on windows, some say IO is inefficient. Still struggling to explain 10x increase in throughput.

Here is a funny instance: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/17783/why-does-emacs-take-longer-to-start-on-windows-than-on-linux

Stop lyin.... oh.

https://imgur.com/a/BWRJ2Ep

Am I going crazy or something? Gimp loads in under 5 seconds on windows for me, and that's with an absurd amount of crap (unity, blender, a vm, and 400+ browser tabs across 5 browsers) running in the background.

Me: Export this 256x256 PNG.

Gimp on windows: Bro, you'd better get a drink and a snack.

Nope this is truth. even with SSD on my part

Kind of funny because I was using an old laptop earlier to recover a partition that Mac fucked up.

Instead of clicking GParted, I accidentally clicked GIMP. For a Core2Duo computer with 4GB RAM, 2 seconds wasn't an exaggeration.

Distro was Manjaro.

still faster than Photoshop tho, but most of the time I use MS Paint 3D anyway

Is the font system at it again?

Anyway to make it open faster on Mac?

Just measured startup time on Windows. 37 seconds from click to splash screen, 40 seconds from splash screen to UI

Credit to mrAnmolv

I read forever ago that deleting plugins and brushes you don't use helps slightly. Can anyone confirm/deny?

Same with emacs

We need to fund this study

In my case Alacritty on Windows 10 takes like 30 seconds to open + 15 seconds waiting for Powershell, on Linux Mint Alacritty + Fish shell takes only 1-2 seconds to open

It used to be the longest program on *nix to load by quite a wide margin outside of games. But that was on spinning drives...

"That's the power of Fatdog64!"

Actually it seems like even on an SSD GIMP takes a few seconds to load nowadays on Windows and yet Fatdog64 loads it within a second or two. Anyone else tried Fatdog64 or any Puppy Linux OS?

Green Is My Pepper

Unless flat/snap

I just pirate Photoshop, it's so much better than GIMP.