Hi, > > 2. Plugins sometimes have Windows related problems. I guess some of the > > developers don't do much testing for Windows. > > I do not think this is a widespread phenomenon.
I agree. There are evidences of the contrary, for example many plugins that have GUIs that are developed under Windows and render bad under Linux and OsX. > > 4. There seems to be a reasonable history of issues with QGIS that only > > appear on > > Windows, particularly problems with printing. Again, I think this is due > > to the > > developers not using windows. > > I would say many Win users do not report and follow bugs, and they are not > used > helping (by coding or by sponsoring) to fix them. The printing issue (of large layouts) is a known regression (used to work fine on qgis 1.6), but again I agree with Paolo. > > 5. FWIW I get a reasonable number of crashes when I try to run QGIS on 64 > > bit > > Windows 7, and none on 32bit Windows XP. I do always run a self-compiled > > (on XP) > > master version of QGIS, not an official build, but I don't really see why > > that > > would affect running on 64bit Windows 7. As you have seen though, some > > people > > report no trouble on Windows 7. I use regularly QGIS on a Windows 7 64bit virtual machine and I don't see much differences when compared to Windows 32bit. cheers -- Giovanni -- _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
