Alright, just tested this. ran date before starting nautilus, got "Fri 14 Aug 2020 05:02:02 PM PDT", ran it once the window appeared, got "Fri 14 Aug 2020 05:03:02 PM PDT", so pretty much a full minute to the second. and here's what I see from journalctl during that period:
Aug 14 17:02:36 boxxy pulseaudio[2703]: D: [pulseaudio] module-udev-detect.c: /dev/snd/controlC2 is accessible: no Aug 14 17:02:36 boxxy pulseaudio[2703]: D: [pulseaudio] module-udev-detect.c: Suspending all sinks and sources of card alsa_card.pci-0000_01_00.1. Aug 14 17:02:53 boxxy dbus-daemon[2064]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.hostname1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.hostname1.service' requested by ':1.326' (uid=1> Aug 14 17:02:53 boxxy systemd[1]: Starting Hostname Service... Aug 14 17:02:53 boxxy gnome-shell[4717]: ERROR: Error getting parameter! Can not get config by name locations.Org.gnome.Nautilus defaulting to false'value is undefined Aug 14 17:02:53 boxxy systemd-resolved[2043]: Server returned error NXDOMAIN, mitigating potential DNS violation DVE-2018-0001, retrying transaction with reduced feature level UDP. Aug 14 17:02:53 boxxy dbus-daemon[2064]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.hostname1' Aug 14 17:02:53 boxxy systemd[1]: Started Hostname Service. Aug 14 17:03:23 boxxy systemd[1]: systemd-hostnamed.service: Succeeded. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891712 Title: nautilus takes ages to start up when not already running To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1891712/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs