I have the same problem, it’s impossible for me to work like this so I had to spin up a VPS on DigitalOcean because it’s like 20x faster. Each page load takes between 20s and 60s which is a nightmare during development.
I’ve applied every single potential fix that I’ve found in the forums but nothing helps. If I disable all the plugins it works fine, and you might say that it’s a plugin causing the problem, but why doesn’t it cause it on the live environment too? I’ve tried with no internet, installed the Airplane Mode plugin, nothing helps. It happens with many different sites, as long as they have more than 10/15 plugins enabled.
Why doesn’t this happen with DesktopServer? I can load ultra-bloated sites at the same speed of a live environment. I have an i7 with 16GB RAM, tried to give as much power to the VirtualBox as possible, increase PHP memory, really nothing helps. What gives?
I also have WooCommerce installed on the site I’m currently working on, it could be the culprit but I sure as hell can’t work on it if I disable it.
I would love for the devs to seriously acknowledge there’s something really wrong with Local’s speed on W10 machines. They either keep posting the same 3/4 suggestions which we’ve all tried or ignore completely the posts like in this case. Such a shame, it’s a beautiful piece of software but if they can’t make it work then there really is no point in using it. I’d even be happy to pay for it, as long as they get more serious about these deal-breaking issues.