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> you don't need to run MS office, right? Tell that to my employer, one of the world's largest bureaucracies. My home computers are 100% MS-free and suffer th
by asciilifeform 16y ago
> you don't need to run MS office, right?
Tell that to my employer, one of the world's largest bureaucracies.
My home computers are 100% MS-free and suffer the same basic problem. The difference is in degree, not kind. Run OpenOffice lately?
> Ubuntu linux + chrome + emacs = no lag.
Lag enough to make me retch.
> I don't think... any computer is immune to the problems of network latencies.
The post was not about individual computers, but about computer systems. That the whole world is on a lunatic lemming-march back to the days of timesharing does not excuse the results. Network latency should have no bearing on the performance of a word processor. That we have built ones where it routinely does is idiocy of the purest sort.