I run the latest 3.4.x on Linux which has been very stable and reliable.
It will be a while before 3.x is as mature and dependable as 2.x which
was at 2.18 a very mature product that had been operating a good number
of years.
Used to run the development version 2.99 but these days I view "stable"
as effectively development simply because other users (not me) have
lodged reports for hundreds of bugs that are progressing only slowly.
I wanted the new features in 3.x and would not go back to 2.18 now.
On 11/12/18 6:49 AM, Bernd Vogelgesang wrote:
Hi,
I can't contribute to your particular problems, but have some remarks.
You said you "reverted" to 2.18. On Windows, you can easily run 3.x
besides 2.x. Do you have the same problems with 2.18? If so, it's
really your personal installation that fails, I think.
The node tool was redesigned in 3.x, and there is quite a discussion
going on, cause not so many people like the new behaviour.
In general, I would like to say, that the promotion of the newest
release shown in QGIS is quite a bad idea: The inexperienced will not
hesitate to update and therefore run in every possible bug, being left
clueless, while the more experienced are more cautious and install it
only anlongside for testing purposes first.
The developers are in a bad situation: They need lots of testers to
find bugs, but in my opinion they reach the wrong users with that
advertisement. (no idea how to improve this)
Furthermore, the new version had a bad start, cause (as I understood)
last-minute-changes in dependencies caught them unprepared.
Unfortunately, no one gives warnings about the major issues somewhere
prominently e.g. on the QGIS.org website, so you have to read the
mailing-list(s) and search in the issue queue yourself. In my opinion,
in QGIS3 the developers were a little too ambitious, but it seems they
also had kind of bad luck as well. Lots of features introduced are
somewhat bleeding-edge and need time to ripe.
As I rarely use Windows, I'm not of big help. I just want to recommend
you to use the network installer (advanced install!) and install the
2.x LTR and the 3.x LTR in parallel and update them through the
installer once in a while, and keep 2.18 for productive work as long
as you do not trust the 3.x version.
The open source mantra is "release early, release often", but that
doesn't mean that everyone has to update early and often as well!
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