07-03-2019, 07:10 PM
Something to check is whether the fonts folder is actually present in the ... user > AppData > Roaming > GIMP > 210 folder. At least one of the times I installed GIMP and kept getting the "Fonts loading" message, at some point I discovered that the fonts folder simply wasn't there. When I created a fonts folder that was the end of the delays. I have no idea why it wasn't there, why it apparently wasn't created during the install. Windows will spend a certain amount of loading time looking for a missing folder and that may be part of the delay.