The files: true makes execution significantly faster! This is very bad in the test loading case - I need to find a way to use the previously cached resolutions over trying to re-resolve everything when the root files change.
It's also possible that the previous version was hitting the cache heavily, if you upgraded from v7 to v8 v8 removed the cache because of type issues.
As long as I am trying to go through the installation, however, I can see the movie playing in the window behind it.
There is a ready-to-use caching solution in that you can try today.
They work fine on Linux like 7.
We implemented to make it easier to debug configuration mistakes, enabling more people to use transpileOnly and to better understand their configuration.