Performance shock

Cybe R. Wizard cyber_wizard at mindspring.com
Sun Apr 24 05:51:35 UTC 2005


On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 22:22:51 -0400
Andy <andy.choens at gmail.com> wrote:

> I really hope that as Desktop Linux continues to mature, this will
> start to even out.  The boot time of the computer isn't as important
> in my view as the start-time of applications like OOo.  I know one
> thing that Windows does is pre-load certain parts of IE and Office.  
> One thing you can do to speed OOo up is to download ooqstart.  There
> is a Gnome version that you might like.

All these speed of loading problems may be so but, at least to me, are
totally overshadowed by the fact that, once you load them, you can just
leave the programs up and running almost forever.  I'll take
slightly slowly loading apps over blue screens of death any day.

Cybe R. Wizard
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