KOffice vs. OpenOffice

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Wed Oct 1 19:39:44 UTC 2008


Art Alexion wrote:

> On Tuesday 30 September 2008 10:50:11 am Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Art Alexion wrote:
>> > On Monday 29 September 2008 8:12:53 am Derek Broughton wrote:
>> >> What a joke!  OO takes _minutes_ to open most docs I get off the net.
>> >
>> > You are either downloading enormously complex docs, or your machine
>> > needs some
>> > tuning.  I didn't even have that issue with a PIII.
>>
>> As I detailed elsewhere - a 93 byte .csv on my own system took 95 seconds
>>
>> > One thing that can really slow down OOo loading is too many extensions
>> > loading
>> > at once.  You can actually install so many that it takes an hour for
>> > the
>> > app to start.  I learned that the hard way.
>>
>> I haven't installed _any_.
> 
> 
> Does it take as long if OOo is running already?  That is, is it a app
> loading or downloading issue?

Well, it was 95 seconds _with_ OO already open, but I'm not sure if it would
be slower from scratch.
-- 
derek





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