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I use both Microsoft Office 97 and LibreOffice for writing. The former runs on virtualized Windows Me. The latter runs "native". Keypress responsiveness when t
by forgotmypw17 6y ago
I use both Microsoft Office 97 and LibreOffice for writing. The former runs on virtualized Windows Me. The latter runs "native".
Keypress responsiveness when typing is night and day, and given where I'm posting this comment, you can guess who has the advantage.
Platform: GNU(Linux)Mint Xfce
- sam_lowry_ 6y agoI can't guess
- kangalioo 6y agoMicrosoft Office 97 most probably
- gorgoiler 6y agoThe hint is in the configuration. The Windows setup is convoluted, awkward, and weird sounding compared to the native app. They are using it for a reason though: it’s much much more responsive than native Linux LibreOffice.
- forgotmypw17 6y agoIt's a bit weird, I guess, but it's hardly convoluted or awkward. I downloaded a pre-baked iso for the os, another one for the office, and in about 10 minutes had a working, tolerable writing environment.
- forgotmypw17 6y agoi'm sorry, have you seen someone about that?
- SomeoneFromCA 6y agoOpen Office feels a bit faster than Libre Office.
- userbinator 6y agoThe former runs on virtualized Windows Me ...which is, like the rest of the DOS-based Windows from Windows/386 onwards, itself a sort of hypervisor architecture --- DOS applications effectively run in VMs thanks to V86 mode, giving native performance. The difference is very noticeable if you open something like MS-DOS EDIT on Win9x vs. NT 4/2K/XP --- the latter runs in an emulated environment and the latency is enormous.