Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 06:07:25PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 08:02:40AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> > You are wrong --- WP8 was natively written for Linux. It's WP9, aka
> > WP2000, that's run under wine, and wow is it horrible.
>
> Does anybody know how the Corel Office Suite (WP2000) compares to
> StarOffice in terms of performance & compatbility to M$-Word format?
> I have StarOffice installed here, and hey, I mean I've got a
> 750 MhZ Duron processor, a quick harddrive and 512 Megs of RAM,
> and I still wouldn't recommend it!
I have a Pentium 200, with 40 MB RAM. StarOffice is too slow to be
useable. WordPerfect was slightly less sluggish, but so unstable as
to be useless; it frequently crashed for no good reason. In addition,
it didn't understand the way that my windowmanager did focus
(focus-follows-mouse in fvwm), so bringing up a dialog box caused
everything to hang for as much as a minute while the focus shifted
rapidly from the main window to the dialog box and back. Entirely
unsatisfactory.
It's possible that you might have a better experience on your faster
machine, but a friend with dual-processor box installed from my CD and
called me the next day to ask, "Is it _supposed_ to work this badly?"
Just my experience. Didn't get to try and Word documents.
Rob
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