Comment by browningstreet

Comment by browningstreet a day ago

7 replies

Apps take 10 seconds to load? Which apps, on what system?

My whole machine reboots in less than 10 seconds. I haven’t seen a blue screen of death in a decade. I haven’t had significant data loss from a failed drive or a corrupt machine in.. I can’t remember. Even DaVinci Resolve is ready to run in a few short seconds.

This is all on a machine I bought 6-8 years ago. I reboot my phone and watch and laptop when I think to, not because I have to. I run half a dozen browsers and hundreds of tabs and play YouTube while waiting for a remote machine to deploy to an immutable temp instance that gets destroyed after every test cycle.

I speak to my AIs and I can live and work anywhere on this planet that legally allows me.

There are problems in our world and on our machines and in our governments but apps don’t take 10 seconds to load.

Except ServiceNow. I’ll give you that one.

alnwlsn 4 hours ago

Altium, Solidworks. Altium is "go and get coffee" slow!

Kicad loads in 2 seconds, and FreeCAD in 7 seconds though.

ale42 18 hours ago

Illustrator for example, on a very recent PC. I can't figure out why it takes so much time to load and it's so heavy. It's not even an Electron app...

cluckindan a day ago

Gimp. On any system.

  • bombela a day ago

    Notice how everybody replying says "less than 5s".

    As if anything done on a machine going through 10_000_000_000 (10 Giga) instructions per seconds should be anything but perceived instantaneous, for it's finite lifetime human user.

  • MalbertKerman a day ago

    On my personal 2017-vintage i5-7200U, GIMP opens in under 5 seconds. On the computer I had for my last job, a 2023-ish i7, about 30 seconds. The problem was the shitheap of corporate security software that bogged down the zillion file access operations during application startup, not the app itself.

  • deathanatos a day ago

    GIMP takes ~2s to start on my 2016 Linux laptop.

    (Though I do think it takes significantly longer to start on my 2024 MBP…)

  • seba_dos1 a day ago

    GIMP takes pretty long to launch indeed, but it's still under 5 seconds on my 6yo XPS 13. Even on my Cortex-A53 phone it doesn't reach 10 seconds.