• Lojcs@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    And then put it into an os that sloppily compresses its wallpapers before displaying them

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      5 months ago

      this pisses me off so much. You can set an HDR wallpaper too, but only if you insert a special file into its place to trick Windows into working properly

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          5 months ago

          Yes but why? Is it so less data can be stored on disk because compressing raster files absolutely does not make them easier to display.

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          Somebody told me that they always use a tiled wallpaper to preserve memory, once.

          They were sort of an advanced user in the 90s, but haven’t done much computer or engineering related work since then.

          If we consider what machines Windows 95 ran on - not even that stupid. Back then.

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      5 months ago

      It’s kinda weird how much of a performance difference the wallpaper makes. I once installed Linux mint on an old laptop and the perf of managing windows and some other things was terrible until I changed the wallpaper to a plain color.

      Meanwhile windows will still lag switching between desktops if they have different wallpapers, even on high end computers

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        5 months ago

        After using Linux for a while all the window animations of windows start to look jarring too