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!
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…See reply, apparently real!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
TIL, thanks! Edited my earlier comment.