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GIMP (credit to mrAnmolv)(lemmy.xylight.dev)

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Album@lemmy.ca
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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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heeplr@feddit.de
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It’s not a small library.

it’s featherweight compared to Windows Desktop, tho

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Album@lemmy.ca
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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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lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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Does Gimp load slowly for people who use KDE?

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Album@lemmy.ca
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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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darcy@sh.itjust.works
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for me, it takes a few seconds on my decent spec laptop. (kde)

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pchem@feddit.de
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Takes about a second for me.

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pilaf@lemmy.world
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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.

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joel_feila@lemmy.world
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So what if you used a distro completely gtk free?

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Album@lemmy.ca
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You need to have libgtk installed to run gimp. It would be like running a Qt app (what KDE environment and apps are based on, among other apps like OBS, roblox, google earth, virtual box, etc) without libQt. You couldn’t because the dependencies aren’t installed.

Of course nothing is stopping you from running both, except maybe memory limitations on low ram hardware.

Or you don’t install it as you suggest and use alternative apps.

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joel_feila@lemmy.world
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ah thanks

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