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I open the full bloody GNU Octave instead. I just timed it.

Calculator: 13s Octave GUI: 5s

The worst thing is that the calculator pretends to be running after like 2s but is unresponsive.



> The worst thing is that the calculator pretends to be running after like 2s but is unresponsive.

I can't stand this and it happens in a lot of places. It seems like pure metric chasing. We made it load faster boss. Well, no you can't use it but it yet but you should have been more specific!

If I open word doc over the slow VPN Word forces itself to the foreground only to show me a file loading dialog.


I will gladly hate on the calculator redesign, but 13 seconds feels like there is some other underlying issue.


Ye, probably architectural problem that somehow surfaces on my work laptop.

I googled abit and there seems to be people that have problem with load time of these system UWP apps.

"I just tested out the calculator again. Took 7 seconds to be usable."




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