On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 14:46 -0500, Patrick Freeman wrote:
I am not sure if crossover office would behave any differently than windows. Maybe a better comparison is how does OOo run on windows (there is a windows version isn't there?)? The Windows version feels quite a bit faster than the linux version, at least too me. I don't know why that is the case. Maybe the linux port is actually behind the windows one?
I stand corrected -- your numbers seem to indicate true slowness. Bear in mind I'm talking about first time start up after a cold boot. When I open it for a second time it's much faster, but still much slower than I think it should be on this kind of hardware.
You're reference to Windows 95 is interesting -- I've often said that Linux on the desktop is comparable to the 95 experience (although the OS is much better). I think KDE and the way SUSE set things up is way ahead of Windows 95.
I think that is an indicator of when we will see parity with the desktop The problem is that it is a moving target. Having had a chance to look at a pre-release of Windows Vista, there are a few things the KDE devs are going to have to add to please the masses.
(which I think you addressed above). However, the 12s you mention -- that is not with a *tuned* OOo startup is it? No, I'm not awayre of any tricks to tune OOo to start quicker, except for the quicklauncher, which I don't use because I don't want it hogging my memory when I'm not using OOo.
I think your Dad has to make a decision between his application startup time and your free tech support <grin>. Actually my dad has no plans of switching, I just used that as a "what if" example. Anyway, he's got three teenage kids in the house to help him with the computer - seldom calls me for that :-)
Hans