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[theolodian]

Wow, it is obnoxiously slow!  

Hard drive spins up every time that I hit enter to start a new line.  This is on a brand new 2.83GHz Core2duo with 2GB of RAM running XP SP3!    Nothing else running except IE6.  :-/

[Debs.]

Wow, it is obnoxiously slow!  

Hard drive spins up every time that I hit enter to start a new line.  This is on a brand new 2.83GHz Core2duo with 2GB of RAM running XP SP3!    Nothing else running except IE6.  :-/

  Resource hungry; `must`ve built up an appetite en-route!

[theolodian]

Wow, it is obnoxiously slow!  

Hard drive spins up every time that I hit enter to start a new line.  This is on a brand new 2.83GHz Core2duo with 2GB of RAM running XP SP3!    Nothing else running except IE6.  :-/

  Resource hungry; `must`ve built up an appetite en-route!

Wow, the PF usage is running at a flat 500MB but the CPU usage spikes to 50% for 10 seconds when I hit enter (one core is maxing out).  Insane!  

[TheBoy]

Yes, I'm underwhelmed with OpenOffice.  People say MS Office is big, slow, and bloaty. They usually haven't tried OpenOffice...

[psychnurse]

I like open office, and must say I have found it to be quicker than other applications. May just be me though!  

How do you find it in comparision??

[TheBoy]

I find it slower than equivilent MS Office suite.  More prone to crashing as well .

I tend to stick to MS Office (I'm allowed to use for free anyway) on Windows, and OpenOffice under Unix or Linux.

[unclelicklug]

No problems with Open Office here -  a little slow to open but certainly no big problems once it's running.
Main annoyance are the slight differences in features etc but I would not spend my own money on MS Office if I had Open Office available for nothing.

[Kevin Wood]

.. at least I know my way round the GUI in Openoffice, which is more than can be said for M$ now they've completely destroyed any familiarity with the applications in Office 2007. Are they trying to get people to defect to open source or what?

It could be faster, though, I agree.

Kevin

[theolodian]

.. at least I know my way round the GUI in Openoffice, which is more than can be said for M$ now they've completely destroyed any familiarity with the applications in Office 2007. Are they trying to get people to defect to open source or what?

It could be faster, though, I agree.

Kevin

I had to use Works in the end.  :-?

[TheBoy]

.. at least I know my way round the GUI in Openoffice, which is more than can be said for M$ now they've completely destroyed any familiarity with the applications in Office 2007. Are they trying to get people to defect to open source or what?

It could be faster, though, I agree.

Kevin

i like the new 2007 layout.  I struggle with office apps, so the new simplicity is

[SWMBO]

I used MS stuff, still remember trying to download Open Office in the bad old days when I only had dial up.., and it always failed to download in the last five mins (after waiting a day for it to download).  I don't tend to erm get charged for MS products somehow or other <cough> <cough>.

[PaulW]

works fine for me!

loads up in about 4 seconds, stays nice and fast while using it, and has not once needed to go into the swap...

and this is on my laptop too (Intel Core2Duo T7700, 3gig RAM, Gentoo Linux)

Although it is compiled from source and not a pre-built binary (as-is the Gentoo way), so is much more optimised than the version you'd get in the likes of Ubuntu and other distro's like that...

infact as a whole, I've never seen above 10% swap in use, even when compiling apps.