OpenOffice.org Bloatware?

Luke-Jr luke at dashjr.org
Sat Oct 29 03:12:34 CDT 2005


On Friday 28 October 2005 04:20, Leo Mauler wrote:
> After spending an entire ITEC exposition extolling the
> virtues of OOo, this crops up to claim that OOo has
> memory usage issues and very slow startup times.
>
> I'll admit that I haven't used M$ Office all that
> much, but I don't seem to notice a significant time
> period between running OOo and starting to write a
> document or create a spreadsheet.
>
> Has anyone else who uses both noticed the kind of lag
> on OOo that the article author describes?

OOo has always seemed bloated and slow to me, so I treat it fairly similar to 
Mozilla/FireFox: It's the best you can get for crapOS/Windows, but probably 
the worst for every other OS.

KOffice does more than I'll ever need.


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