Can't argue with that. Once Windows gets itself going (i.e. everything is cached which needs to be) it'll start Word or Excel just about instantly - certainly quicker than it's possible to time. OO is an embarassment in this respect, as is KDE to a lesser extent.
In your experience, would you say this is true even if you're using the openoffice quickloader included in SuSE 8.2?
On a 128MB machine already laden with KDE? I've never tried it. I'd have thought that the VM would come under pressure and would rapidly free up the physical pages containing the cached OO information, thereby negating much of the effect of the quickloader. Or maybe the quickloader does it's thing by preventing the need for relinking, in which case it will still be mostly effective? I don't know. What's your experience? -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003