2024-10-05 by GIMP Team
This is a short development update on our progress towards the first release candidate for GIMP 3.0. We recently reached the string freeze milestone. What this means is that there will be no more changes in user-facing text (like GUI labels and messages) so that translators can work on the final translations for the 3.0 release.
My interpretation has always been that it loads [too] many files. File performance on many [small] files is noticeably, significantly slower on Windows than it is on Linux.
Huh I did not realize that. Is that an NTFS vs. EXT4 thing?
I recommend watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbKGw8MQ0i8