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Here's a Windows fun fact (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works

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[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 69 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Even for Windows, as shit as it is, this seems hard to believe.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, the only thing I could imagine would be that image loading/processing uses an optimized library, but a single color is (unlikely but possibly) implemented poorly as a loop over every pixel, with some egregious overhead.

~~Most likely shit post though...~~ See reply, apparently real!

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The reply is obviously a joke, but the original issue is true (credit):

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/the-welcome-screen-may-be-displayed-for-30-seconds-during-the-logon-process-after-you-set-a-solid-color-as-the-desktop-background-in-windows-7-or-in-windows-server-2008-r2-b4565ced-703a-cc85-bf9c-6b3d586d6421

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 4 months ago

TIL, thanks! Edited my earlier comment.