On Wednesday 26 February 2003 18:53, you wrote: > As I said, if you want to compare apples to apples, load OO ONCE on desktop > 2 and switch to it--that is what Windows is doing with MSO, or the nearest > achievable equivalent. No. The perfomance is not comparable even then. I write this mail on a 166Mhz/48MbRAM Compaq Deskpro that was capable of giving me snappy perfomance running MSO97 and Win95. It runs now Mdk8.2, no KDE, only XFCE, no useless services running, I have really done everything I know to make it run. First start of OOo takes more than a minute. But it does not get any better later. Opening new files takes time. Even autosave of a long file means 10 sec coffee break. I have not tried Mdk7.1, maybe the difference in perfomance is really so big as you describe. Having worked with older StarOffices as well, using 5.1 would probably mean perfomance loss, not a win.
> Then you will have comparable performance except you can be doing more > tasks on Mandrake. Yes that I believe. But still, the only argument that made my family company (run by my parents) change the OS was question about licences, and to the lesser degree about stability. They are convinced that Linux performance is lousy and I am not capable of showing otherwise. What more, there is still my mother doing bookkeeping on an old P90/Win95 that was bought brandnew when such comp was a big deal. She has had no crashes or blue screens since then and so Linux stability is not an argument either, at least for her. Wahur
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