[bornagainpenguin]

Are you talking about The spotlight corner image or the spotlight content widget that displays full screen?

Spotlight corner image should be instant. Spotlight content widget may take a few seconds while your widgets are loading.

What platform are you on?

I'm on LibreELEC, and occasionally on Ubuntu-Mate 20.04. Mostly I am on LibreELEC. And yeah I'm talking about the large full screen widget. It's certainly not loading in seconds for me.

Does it query the library or load from the add-ons via the internet?

What like in a raspberry pie or something? Sometimes more really is better I doubt Bingie will perform well on that platform.

No! No way. I do have an rpi3 and I learned very quickly that I needed to be smart about what skins I used on it.

This is happening on an HP elitedesk 705 G3 with an AMD A10 processor and Radeon R7 Graphics using the x64 pc port. It's powerful enough, trust me!