Yes, I get 3 seconds from clicking on the panel icon to the appearance of the splash screen. I sometimes see a "progress bar" if I am running a lot of packages and need to open a document within LO. Just now, the splash screen came on and in about a second or two the page view windows [or whatever it is officially called] replaced the splash screen and the progress bar did not have "the time" to show any progress.
I run an AMD Phenom X4 9650 64-bit quad core running either 1.15 or 2.3 GHz depending on the system need at the time. It has an "internal" NVIDIA GeForce 7025 video on a ASRock N68-S motherboard. I could upgrade the processor since it is AM3 ready. The system was a "custom build" so it is not a name brand system. I have 4 GB of ram, most likely DDR2. All four of the SATA ports are used, and it stated they are SATA II @ 3.0 Gb/s. There are some "internals" that was designed for Windows, that are not accessible using Linux, but I do not notice any issues. I have a 600 watt power, just in case I decided to add a powerful GPU video. I have not so far.
I was told that this system was somewhere shy of the top quarter of the AMD processors for power, when it came out. I just call it mid-range.
I do not remember the drive companies, but in Feb. 2010 it had a 1-TB drive and an IDE optical DVD burner. The spring of 2012, I installed a 2-TB drive [big-drive] and by the fall I added another 2-TB drive [data-two]. A few weeks ago I added the SATA DVD burner. So now all 4 SATA II ports are in use. I want to replace the aging 1-TB OS and active data drive with a 2-TB one with it partitioned as 300-500 for the OS and data, then the rest being a data-only partition. That will give me a total of 6-TB in the desktop. The next drive purchase will be to replace the first 2-TB drive with a 3 or 4 TB one. The current drives have 78.8 GB, 113.8 GB, and 55.2 GB free space on them. So it is time to think about adding the extra TB or more to the desktop. I just have to either replace a drive or add more SATA II/III ports to it.
I never ran Windows on this desktop, my default system I so most thing on. I started with Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit, since it was Feb. 2010, and went to 10.04LTS when it came out. Then I waited till 12.04 LTS to upgrade it, just like I will be waiting for 14.04LTS for the next one.
Your dual boot OS loading seems about the same for me, once I get the screen that gives me a choice of OS.
Your loading Writer seems ok with my quad Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit, dual core Intel running Ubuntu 12.04 or Win7 Home Premium or Win7 Professional [2 dual core laptops with the different Win7 installs on each]. Now my old AMD64 laptops running XP/pro takes about 15 to 20 seconds. I do not use Calc, Impress, or Draw much so I never really noticed their opening speeds.
On 08/05/2013 09:17 AM, Andrew Brown wrote:
GentsKracked, a good reply. If I may add my two cents worth to performance of start-ups here.This is my system hardware top of the range in December 2007, and still hops today. The only things updated since 2008 was the video card and the SATA III hard drives, and the O/S's.Windows 7 Ult. x64 / Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Dual boot, Intel Core2 Duo 6850 3GHZ, MSI X-38 Diamond mobo, Asus ATI EAH5770 CUcore 1GB Video, SuperTalent 6GB DDR3 1333MHZ, Seagate 7500RPM SATAIII 500GB (Windows Boot), Seagate 7500RPM SATAIII 2TB (Data), Seagate 7500RPM SATAIII 500GB (Linux), Thermaltake Toughpower 750W PSUAlso my analogy of a well tuned and clean system, will run top gun for many years compared to cutting edge modern hardware today getting bogged down with willy nilly installed and unmaintained software (but again if this is maintained it will remain a top gun from it's day of purchase and clobber my hardware performance). I see and read too many who throw good money at high end systems only to have them slow a few months later, and many who poer poer the idea of cleaning a system (registry and boot processes), and defragging it. So here's my tested speeds of this system above.PC switch on to ready state to use (Windows 7 64bit, with a dual boot menu selection and the login screen) = 40 seconds PC switch on to ready state to use (Ubuntu 13.04 64bit, with a dual boot menu selection and the login screen) = 20 secondsLO Writer from click on icon to ready to type / menu clicks (Windows 7 64bit) etc. - 3 seconds LO Writer from click on icon to ready to type / menu clicks (Ubuntu 13.04 64bit) etc. - 3 seconds LO Calc from click on icon to ready to type / menu clicks (Windows 7 64bit) etc. - 3 seconds LO Calc from click on icon to ready to type / menu clicks (Ubuntu 13.04 64bit) etc. - 3 seconds LO Impress from click on icon to ready to type / menu clicks (Windows 7 64bit) etc. - 3 seconds LO Impress from click on icon to ready to type / menu clicks (Ubuntu 13.04 64bit) etc. - 3 secondsAll the above to load a file directly i.e click on the data file which loads the appropriate app (and I chose files of around 5MB - 4 seconds for Writer, 5 seconds for Calc and 5 seconds for Impress in both O/S's.PC shutdown, from time to click on shutdown options to cold and dark (Windows 7 64bit) = 15 seconds PC shutdown, from time to click on shutdown options to cold and dark (Ubuntu 13.04 64bit) = 5 secondsMy LO splash logo on both O/S's is displayed in under 1 second and the scroll bar in the splash logo takes under 1 second to show it's loading state, the balance of the time in the 3 seconds is loading the app, and I don't use the quickstarter option and have never done. I have supplied the times for clicking on the data file to load the app.Regards On 05/08/2013 02:10 PM, Tom Davies wrote:Hi :) With MSO the splash screen appears immediately and keeps doing things to make it clear it is doing something. With LO it is ages before the splash screen appears so it looks like it hasn't reacted at all. So people don't trust it and they think that more time passes. It might be good to video the same system starting each up in turn. Also i think the Windows version is a lot slower to start up than the Ubuntu one. LO is getting better but it just doesn't look like it is. Perception is often more important than reality with things like this. Regards from Tom :)________________________________ From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster<webmaster@krackedpress.com>To:users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 5 August 2013, 12:49Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] start up speed For me, I do not use the Quickstart option. Their are some hassles with upgrading some extensions if that is "on" all the time. I find that without using that option, I have the package load up and usable for editing quickly enough for my needs. It is faster than many other packages I use. The "boot" time for LO is much faster now that in the past. Also, compared to MS Office, it is still faster. There is one other "time" that needs to be measured. The time it takes for you to be able to start editing. Sure you can have a package start up fast and show its "page view", but it does no good if you cannot start working with the package if it take another minute or so to allow you to start working with it. Take Writer or Word. You start the package by double-clicking the icon in the menu or on the screen. Then you get a splash screen. After that the document or a new one is seen in the "page view" window. Now, how long does it take from there to be able to click on a menu or start typing editing the document? That is where I had a problem with MSO 2003. Sure that is ten years out of date, but it was the last version of MSO I actually work with on a regular basis. Since 2010 I have been a "Linux" person with Ubuntu as my default desktop OS. So I have not tried the newest version of MSO. But, with Writer, the time ti takes>from opening of the page view window to being able to edit or click onthe menus has been reduced by a large percentage since I started using LO in its early days. That is the real question. How much wait time do you have between clicking on the icon to the print of being able to work with the package. No package is as fast as people would like, i.e. click and edit in a matter of a 2 or 3 seconds. Right now, with 2 browser windows open, this email package and 3 utilities on the screen, my Ubuntu install on a mid-range quad core desktop from Feb. 2010 , takes about 7 seconds from click to editing. That is fast enough for me. I have run packages that take 15 to 30 seconds to open up to the point of using it. In this day of wanting things as quick as possible, 15 to 30 seconds may be too long for some people. Yet, for those of you who have been using PCs since its early days of DOS or even Windows 95, these start up times are super fast compared to those older systems, even with the less powerful packages that we used, like PC-Write for word processing.
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