[0cf8612b2e1e]

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?

[dogleash]

>What happened to pride or quality control or anything?

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

[jandrese]

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

[contextfree]

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

[jandrese]

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.

[hulitu]

> What happened to pride or quality control or anything?

We are talking about Microsoft here.

[hnlmorg]

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.