Arduino IDE 2.0 beta very slow to load

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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If I click the icon in the Start menu, the splash screen appears after about 1 minute. It's visible for 30s-60s so it takes at least 2 minutes for it to load. I don't have an SSD, my laptop uses an HDD but 2 minutes is excessive. Anyone else having this problem?

Version: 2.0.0-rc3

Edit:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700HQ CPU @ 2.40GHz 2.39 GHz
Memory: 12Gb

2

Same issue on a 2nd generation I3 with 8GB RAM. But it gives me time to brew my coffee :wink: Starting a new sketch via File -> New is also slow (but not as bad).

3

So is opening a sketch with File->Open.

This is, to me, one of the major disappointments of Version 2. Otherwise it actually works pretty well.

4

Something else that really annoys me is that its splash screen always stays on top of everything on the screen, so you can't do something else while it's loading. Well you can, but you can't see other windows because the splash screen is in the way.

Also, if you take focus away from the IDE while it's loading for 2+ minutes and use another window, e.g. a browser, the splash screen never goes away until you switch to the just loaded IDE and interact with it. Very annoying.

5

This is tracked by the Arduino IDE developers here:

And there is already a proposal for an improvement on this behavior:

If you would like to try it out, tester builds are available for download from the "Artifacts" section of this page:

https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/actions/runs/1618349447#artifacts

This issue is being tracked by the Arduino IDE developers here:

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