New project is taking a very long time to load

Today, I downloaded and installed the latest version of Unity, and once everyt$$anonymous$$ng was set up and running, I tried to make a new project. After pressing Create, it began loading, but not$$anonymous$$ng really happened. I waited for nearly fifteen minutes, but the loading bar indicated that, still, it hadn't even begun to load at all. Afterwards, I restarted my computer and deleted the existing files for that project, then tried again, but the exact same t$$anonymous$$ng happened. Is t$$anonymous$$s normal? If so, how long do I have to wait for it to open? Like I mentioned, t$$anonymous$$s was a new project, so it couldn't have possibly had anyt$$anonymous$$ng in it besides the starting template/whatever the projects have to begin with.

For context, my computer has roughly 7GB of available storage right now (after installing the program), and 8GB of memory.

Thank you in advance! I've never used Unity before, so I'm very new to t$$anonymous$$s...