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minus-squareCancerMancer@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·22 hours agoEven for Windows, as shit as it is, this seems hard to believe.
minus-squareqjkxbmwvz@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·21 hours agoYeah, 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…
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 hours agoThe 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
Even for Windows, as shit as it is, this seems hard to believe.
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…
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