Re: [libreoffice-users] start up speed

Actually my 3 second test, as stated in a past post, was with 3 
utilities open on the screen and 2 or 3 Firefox browser windows open.  
The utilities are always loaded at boot by my choice.  I have several FF 
windows open with many tabs involved.  That is part of my "normal" 
desktop use so I do not have to keep opening those pages every day or 
so, and sometimes 3 or 6 times a day.

So with all that background packages, 3 seconds is not bad at all for a 
Ubuntu 12.04LTS system.

Now on my Win7 laptops, well that is a different story, or similar 
maybe.  I have a "ton" of security packages loaded up at boot time.  
Also there are some utilities and other options loaded, like printer 
management and other "stuff" like that.  So there is much more packages 
running in the background with the Win7 laptops - both dual core but 
different power - so click to splash to ready for work will take 
longer.  To be honest, I am one of those people that believes that 
Windows is a OS that can be easily infected with "nasties" so you must 
have a lot of security utilities running to keep that from happening.  I 
know some fools that do not even run anti-virus packages.  They say "why 
bother", "I am safe", "I never go to sites that will infect me", or my 
favorite "It will never happen to me.  You are just paranoid".

So, the key is that fact that LO is faster loading to a usable state, 
now, than it was last year.  Also, it is not the speed to the splash 
screen, but the speed of how long it will take till you are able to use 
the package.

So if you run all of  the security package, like I do, on Windows it 
will take longer to load up completely than with less security.  The 
same with Linux and how much is running in the background.  The same 
system, down to the exact same CPU, RAM, drive, OS, etc., will take 
different times depending on what is installed and running.  Even a 
fragmented drive will reduce the load and usage speeds.

So let us just say LO is loading faster than before and if a person 
cannot wait for a few seconds for load time, then they will not be happy 
with most packages out there that does similar "work".  Tablets can be 
worse load times for their packages and I know of no one locally who has 
complained about that.



On 08/06/2013 07:06 AM, Andrew Brown wrote:
> Ha! Ha! there you go, LO just runs on whatever platform and O/S of 
> your choice. And for the most part, what is a minute or less really 
> from switch on to productive use of something. I can't make a cup of 
> tea in that time, and I mean a real brewed cup of tea. Now at least 
> the movies can show an actor sitting down in front of a PC and almost 
> instantly start to work on it, I used to laugh at this in the past :-P
>
> Regards
>
> Andrew
>
> On 06/08/2013 04:12 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> > On 08/05/2013 05:03 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > > Hi :)
> > > That is weird.
> > >
> > >
> > > On this fairly crumby laptop, 2.2GHz (hmmm, not so crumby after all) 
> > > it took about 0-1 seconds for the LO splash-screen to appear.  Same 
> > > on my really nice desktop, 1.86GHz (hmmm, not so nice after all!).  
> > > Both running Ubuntu and fairly old versions of LO (i think).  
> > > Meanwhile on Windows 2.93GHz it took about 1s to open Writer 
> > > completely.  Didn't even have time to see the splash screen.
> >
> > I have a Sony Vaio laptop. I'm running a dual boot Windows 7 and 
> > Linux Mint 15 (running in the Windows WUBI installer). I just started 
> > using LO 4 on the Linux Mint side and immediately noticed how much 
> > faster it runs on Mint rather than Win7. I'm sure there are a lot of 
> > variables, and I haven't tested them all, but so far, I'm really 
> > pleased with the performance of LO on Mint.
> >
> > Virgil


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