• Album@lemmy.ca
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    1 year 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.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not a small library.

      it’s featherweight compared to Windows Desktop, tho

      • Album@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Sure… But the point is that it’s an apples to oranges compare when half of gimp is loaded by the OS at boot under Linux and at runtime on Windows.

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        1 year 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

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    1 year ago

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

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        1 year ago

        Here is the WSLg repo if you’re curious about how it works: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg

        Basically, Microsoft take a Wayland compositor (Weston) and modify it to add support to enable automatic RDP connection to the Windows host. They also added support to RDP individual application window instead of the full desktop. The result is the Wayland compositor will render the application windows over RDP when you run any GUI app.