Why is OpenOffice slow?

[Martin OConnor]

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Arjun Shankar wrote:
> Okey, I didn't really bother about this till I saw OpenOffice running
> on Windows machines at the place where I train. OpenOffice works
> REALLY slow on my notebook (running only Ubuntu, so I can't really
> compare, how it is on other operating systems myself), but it's
> reasonably fast on those windows machines, which arent really all that
> 'better' than my litle piece of computing power.
> 
> So why is it that something thats open source is faster on a non-free
> platform, than one thats free?
> 
> I know this isn't exactly related to ubuntu; still...
> 
> Arjun Shankar
> 
What is the spec of your laptop. If your laptop is slower than the
windows machines you tried Open Office on, then Open Office will run
slow on the laptop.

If your laptop is a modern machine, you might try installing the
linux-686 package and booting into the new kernel.
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