Comparing LibreOffice Versions: AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap

Re:Comparing LibreOffice Versions: AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap by Insanity on Friday June 14, 2019 @08:27AM (#20182387)

It probably bothers some people but it does not bother me. I'm on relatively slow hardware. I use a (second?) gen i5, but without an SSD and without a GPU. My laptop is fine for programming, even gaming (CS:GO, CS:S both work! CS:GO admittedly on 1080p but low graphics).

The thing is that I've never used anything faster than an i7 + HDD (with GPU). So when my old one died, I just started using my ever so slightly slower laptop as main device.

I firmly believe that as long as you have not experienced the difference (which I haven't) it does not bother you. Applications don't start lightning fast, when I open the terminal I need to wait a second before I can start typing. So I start Spotify, Firefox alongside my terminal and after ~10 seconds I'm up and running for the rest of the day.

I'm not that bothered about waiting 10 seconds each day.

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Re:Comparing LibreOffice Versions: AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday June 14, 2019 @09:05AM (#20182595)

You really should be. I am continually amazed at how, even though computers have become orders of magnitude faster since the early 90s, everything still feels pretty much exactly as slow.

Let me put it this way: A 2nd gen i5 can execute about 6 instructions per cycle per core. At 3Ghz, that's 18 billion instructions every second or 5e-11 seconds per instruction. If each of those instructions is a second to the processor's subjective experience, then 18 billion of them is about 570 years. It takes 3 times that to startup an application for typing text into a document.

I didn't even take multicore into account.

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