If I say there’s good news, then there is good news: I have finally started to appreciate The Gimp! This is because there was always one reason why I pertinently refused to use it: plugins. Everytime the program opened, it used to reload all existing plugins over and over again. The default install comes with 163 of them. Minutes, no, hours, passed by while the program tried to load them all into memory.
OK, I’m overreacting. But apparently, after installing a newer version yesterday, the program only went through that ‘dreaded’ process at initial start-up. I was delighted to find out that this process was skipped during subsequent runs. As I said: now we’re getting somewhere. Where can I find these other plugins again you said?
And yes, you can also use your Photoshop Plugins.
Never encountered that particular rescanning problem.
I think it only affected Windows Gimp versions…