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

[Patrick Dunford]

Plenty of bugs are being discovered and reported but not many bug 
reports are being opened, as it appears to me.

I'm not aware of issues with the new node editor. It works very well 
most of the time.

Qgis 3.4.anything is very stable on Debian, I stopped running it on 
Windows a long time ago.

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!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernd
>
>