"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying."

Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by unpopularopp on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:57PM (#50487215)

Maybe someone can help but why does LibreOffice take 4-5 seconds to start on Windows? There are many reports of that [0] and otherwise I have zero problems with my system. This is the only application which is actually noticeably slow to start.

https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/why-does-libroffice-starts-so-...

https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/startup-time-open-libreoffice-...

https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/why-does-libreoffice-feel-slug...

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Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by thinkingtoilet on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:01PM (#50487273)

Does it matter? Are you in such a rush that you need your document program to open in under 4 seconds? What difference does this make?

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Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by shiandow on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:04PM (#50487317)

I wish Microsoft office was anywhere near as quick if I'm honest. But no I don't know any way to improve startup time.

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Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by hobo123 on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:18PM (#50488391)

My work Mac is really fast IMHO, but Excel will take ages to launch.

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Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by notabotiswear on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:00PM (#50489585)

Same here. 12 core processor, NVME, clean OS, enough memory to make Altman furious, and Excel still starts slower than Calc did when I was running it off spinning rust and a Core 2 Duo.

Fortunately, I get to do what I want with that rig, so 95% of the spreadsheetin' I do on it are on Calc. Excel is only there for the rare compatibility issues and checking the occasional Calc-generated .xlsx that I have to pass on to others.

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Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by rbr94 on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:07PM (#50487353)

I prefer them working on other stuff (office interop, stability, i18n, a11y, etc.). 4-5 secs suffices

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Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by fito on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:38PM (#50487831)

Microsoft Defender tends to slow down everything else on the system; just ask VLC

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Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by adrian_b on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:43PM (#50487910)

I have not used recently LibreOffice on Windows, so I do not remember if it was starting slowly.

But I can confirm that it is a problem specific to the Windows variant, because on Linux it starts instantly.

Sometimes when programs start slowly on Windows it is not their fault, but some antivirus garbage scans them every time, because they are not whitelisted, so it delays their startup.

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Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by GeoAtreides on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:55PM (#50489518)

Why not ask an agent to investigate? give it the source code for extra context and let it loose, it would have something in a couple of hours.

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