Faster hardware I could have guessed for myself, and I doubt that ext4 vs NTFS will make much of a difference.
None of other coin wallets take this much time starting up, should get priority to be fixed if all users of ECC have this issue.
Check people on the slack channel if you seek any help. Here is harder to troubleshoot things.
Also, you can open a GitHub ticket if you have not done so already.
Ok thanks for the reply, when I have a bit more time I will go to the slack channel to address the issue.