[Qgis-user] QGIS 3.4.2 still very slow to work in Windows 10

[Saber Razmjooei]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 10:39, Antongeo76 <antoviscomi at gmail.com> wrote:

> berndv. 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!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Bernd
> >
> > Am 10.12.18 um 17:59 schrieb David Addy:
> >> I have always loved QGIS and I have extolled its virtues to local
> >> historians
> >> and archaeologists in my area.
> >> I have had to keep quiet about it lately.
> >> I was somewhat relieved to hear a comment on a recent video of the
> >> Oceania
> >> meeting that QGIS 3.4.1 was a dud release as it caused Windows to crash
> >> at
> >> random moments. I had thought that all the long pauses, messages of QGIS
> >> not
> >> responding, and crashing when being closed down was some awful feature
> >> unique to my computer. I had even tried reverting to 2.18 for a while.
> >> However, after I upgraded to 3.4.2 I still had problems.
> >> Opening QGIS on Windows 10 can take over half a minute before anything
> >> happens apart from the outline box of the QGIS window full of blank
> >> space.
> >> Once a project finally loads up any random operation can still get the
> >> "QGIS
> >> not responding" message.
> >> This can result in further issues because I try pressing buttons to get
> a
> >> response.
> >> I even bought Anita's 4th edition of "Learn QGIS" to see if I was doing
> >> something radically wrong. It did highlight a few wrinkles until I got
> to
> >> page 55 when I discovered instructions on the edit node tool. This tool
> I
> >> had used OK in the past, but it now baffles me totally. I cannot get it
> >> to
> >> do what the book says.
> >> I am now losing my confidence in 3.4.2 and can only hope that the next
> >> point
> >> release will produce improvements.
> >> It would really help if known major issues like this could be posted
> >> here,
> >> perhaps as a sticky which stays at the top, to let users know that they
> >> are
> >> not alone with an issue.
> >> Sorry to complain.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> HI Bernd,
> I fully agree with you,
> even on the fact of the versions installed and to be used for productivity
> (I've installed all concomitant versions available for a single machine,
> and
> I use them almost every day)...
> the fact is that every time I write about freezes  or general malfunctions
> (here or in QGIS issues)
> I seem to be the only one to be affected (or we are in very few users to
> observe and report these anomalies) ...
>
> Greetings
> unfortunately it is often difficult to communicate remotely ...
> we should have a developer sitting next to prove that the software often
> does not run as it should and you would expect
>
>
https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/commercial_support.html#core-contributors
https://nyalldawson.net/2016/08/how-to-effectively-get-things-changed-in-qgis/

Regards
Saber


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