From: Adam (suckmy-balls.com)
Date: Sun Aug 22 2004 - 21:13:46 CDT

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On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 06:03:30PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote:

-snip longwinded ranbling-

Nobody cares why an app is fast, they care that when the start it, they
don't need to go take a nap before it starts up and can be used. On my
laptop opera takes 3 seconds to load, and firefox takes 9. Once running
opera renders pages faster, and responds faster than mozilla. Is this
because opera somehow "cheats"? I don't know and I don't care, its
usable and mozilla isn't. Its the same thing with MS Office vs open
office, open office is so slow its not worth using, but MS office works
fine. And no, they don't need to control the OS to do that, MS office
under wine is far faster than oo running natively. Microsoft putting
effort into making their application work faster isn't cheating, and
isn't bad. Abiword starts just as fast as MS word, so there is no
excuse that MS is somehow cheating and its ok for oo to be unusably
slow. Oo is so slow that when I convert someone to a unix system from
windows, they won't suffer with OO, I have to give them wine and MS
Office. I don't care if OO thinks thats ok, this is still the real
answer to the original question of "why use MS Office under wine when
there's OO".

Adam

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