On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 02:02, Vahur Lokk wrote: > On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:39, you wrote: > > > And don't forget the obvious > > > > Office is like 95% loaded if you use windows... compare that to loading ALL > > of OpenOffice. > > Yes here is the point. Especially when low spec boxes come into play. Old > Pentium running Win9x and MSO is absolutely viable office conf running well > and fast. And such boxes are very much in use around here. > > Now try running Linux with OpenOffice on such a box. There is absolutely no > way to achieve comparable perfomance, whatever distro, kernel, window manager > you run.
Try running win95 and OOo on one of them.... it's even slower.... OOo is a monolithic pig (but they are putting it on a diet.) > > In fact, comparing GUI loading times does not matter for me - its usually > once-a-day event. But if loading times of OOo and MSO differ in minutes not > seconds it is a showstopper. And no good explanation helps. Also suggestions > to use something else instead of OOo monster are completely useless. > > Wahur > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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