Re:LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks ...
by sporkydistance on Thursday February 13, 2025 @06:01PM
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When I was at Intel in the late 90's, early 2000's, one CPU project decided it was going to use it exclusively. It was agonizing: slow, terrible UI, buggy, missing a lot of features. I never tried it again, did it get better? It's tragic that there is no competition in this space (rip Lotus).
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Re:LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks ...
by ack_complete on Thursday February 13, 2025 @09:38PM
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There was a long period of time where LibreOffice Writer had severe performance regressions due to a rework of graphics handling that removed most of the image caching. If you had a slower system or a high DPI / Retina display it could be agonizingly slow due to constantly rescaling images on the CPU. It started sometime in either 3.x or 4.x and didn't get resolved until mid ~7.x. I stayed on an old version for a long time.