Why would they open them faster? They do the exact same shit. It takes a long time because the OS has to load every file into memory, and especially the first time things line the whole gtk library is loaded is taking its time.

No wayland.

I mean, it is probably not a bad idea to take a look at one of the most well-loved DEs for ideas… and Gnome did take only good things from it and my subjective opinion is that they have a proper vision taking many of the good things from OSX.

You are free to fork it at anytime. I really can’t hate them for having a cohesive vision they plan on developing.

Is there any desktop OS that open apps instantly? Because I have never seen any, my phone definitely beats any of them.

I like and use it each day. Now who wins?

Though to add: many things in your file system are listed as “files” in a directory, but are completely virtual with varying ways on what they do when written to/read from. (Also, linux has streams and files, not only files) E.g. /dev/null will read zeros, and discard data written to. But it has no physical backing.