Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

[Scot L. Harris]

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 21:42 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Jeff Vian wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 21:43 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> > 
> >>Mike McCarty wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>from its local disc. I just clicked on the "OpenOffice.org
> >>>Writer Word processor" icon on the task bar at the bottom
> >>>of my screen, and it was 58 seconds before it was ready
> >>>to take a keystroke, on my 2.71 GHz Linux machine. On my
> >>>400MHz Win98 machine, Word loads in less than 5 secs.
> >>
> > LOL.   And windows98 with the corresponding Word is much smaller than
> > the current Word or OOo.
> > 
> > Also, I am interested in how you forced OO to take that long to load.
> > Mine takes <10 seconds to load OOo 2.X from click to typing.
> 
> I didn't force it. It's a (painful) fact of life for me. In fact,
> when I browse the web, I often don't look at a document if it's
> .doc format just because OO will take so long to load.

One suggestion, a while back openoffice on my laptop was taking a long
time to load.  I tracked the problem down to the dictionary system which
was loading a number of languages which I did not need or want.  I
believe I found a message on this list which detailed how to disable all
languages except the one I used.  This dramatically improved the load
time of the application.