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I took a screenshot and pasted it into the new Win11 Paint. Even minimized, Paint was constantly using 5% CPU and sitting at ~250MB of RAM. I guess I can begrudgingly get over the RAM, but squandering the CPU like that is ridiculous.

What happened to pride or quality control or anything?



>What happened to pride or quality control or anything?

Sounds like some dangerous cowboy coding wrongthink you've got going on over there.


I assume it is basically an Electron app now. Anything will be bloated when it's a full web browser running some webapp.


No, it doesn't use Electron or webviews afaik. The UI is mostly WinUI2/UWP/XAML Islands based however


If that's the case then why is it so heavy? In comparison The Gimp consumes about 80MB of memory and burns a trivial amount of when not being actively used.


> What happened to pride or quality control or anything?

We are talking about Microsoft here.


Exactly. Their software has always been shit.

Microsoft didn’t become dominant because of the quality of their software. They became dominant because they knew how to run a an aggressively successful business better than their competitors.




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