On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 20:10, Bo Victor Thomsen <bo.victor.thom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just my - very late – 2 cents. > > > > I have 2 computers that is exactly the same type: Lenovo Thinkpad P50. There > is no difference in cpu, memory, SSD or graphics. One is running Windows 7 > and one is running Ubuntu 18.04. Both have QGIS 3.4.2 with the same plugins > installed. > > > > The Linux pc starts QGIS 3.4.2 in just 4 seconds or less. The windows machine > is at least 5 times slower starting up. When QGIS is running the Linux pc is > slightly faster. > > > > The crucial difference is the startup time of the plugins. On the Linux pc > you hardly notice the "Restoring loaded plugins" text. However, it takes – > forever - on the Windows pc. > > > > My guess is that the initialization of the python plugins runs very, very > slow on the Windows pc. So the culprit may be the python interpreter on > Windows.
This sounds like a known issue since ages (v 2.6?), where at QGIS startup the Processing plugin parses all the hundreds of description files for the SAGA/GRASS algorithms. You can verify by disabling the Processing plugin and relaunching. Nyall _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
