alt Hacker NewsMaybe 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 I use regulary which is actually noticeably slow to start. Even restoring a Firefox instance with hundreds of tabs and +20GB RAM committed is quicker (1s)
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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.
I prefer them working on other stuff (office interop, stability, i18n, a11y, etc.). 4-5 secs suffices
Microsoft Defender tends to slow down everything else on the system; just ask VLC
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.
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?
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.