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It sounds like you know more about LibreOffice than I do but have you increased the memory per object and image cache? Back when I did that it made a noticeable difference for me, not that it was bad before but just that everything got faster. With an increased memory cache size even cold starts are now pretty much instant. Before I increased the memory cache size, the only delay I would ever see, was when opening LibreOffice from a cold start which would take 3-4 seconds, after that first start it would open instantly. Huge UI lag? That’s weird, I have an average desktop and haven’t seen any UI lag or delays when opening menus or when resizing columns and LibreOffice opens very fast, without using Quickstarter.
I do in-place updates of LibreOffice Fresh 圆4 for Windows on my own computer and of LibreOffice Fresh x86 for Windows on another computer, without first uninstalling the previous version, and I don’t think I’ve ever run into an updating-related problem.Īnyway, I can find things to complain about in LibreOffice, but the updating model is not something I would have thought to include. Plus, with LibreOffice, I don’t have to keep my eyes peeled for potentially bork-o-genic Microsoft Office patches, which seemed to start cropping up more frequently after Satya Nadella fired half of Microsoft’s QA staff. The downloads seem to take forever, the installs seem to take forever, and I know I’m going to have to reboot the computer every time. (On the other hand, I *do* have relatively fast unmetered Internet, so the ~270MB download isn’t as big a stumbling block as it might be for other users.) It’s when I see that iCloud and iTunes updates are available on other computers I look after that I really start to gnash my teeth and wail.
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I can handle the ten minutes or so it takes for a full install every couple/few months.
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The Document Foundation released a short video that highlights important changes as a pretty diligent and impatient updater, I have an 8-year-old, middle-of-the-road Windows 7 圆4 laptop (with the “speed-crippling” Meltdown patch), and the time it takes to keep LibreOffice Fresh up to date is not an issue for me. A full list of all changes is in the Release Notes. The official blog post is a good starting point to find out what is new in the new version of the Office program.
Calc: new spreadsheet functions SEARCHB, FINDB and REPLACEB.Calc: support for unformatted text pasting that preserves line breaks and tabs across multiple cells.Writer: support for "Grammar By" spell checking which improves how new words are added to a dictionary by associating it with an existing word so that LibreOffice will recognize the new word with affixes or in compounds as well.Users may use OpenPGP to sign ODF documents and an (experimental) option to use OpenPGP to encrypt documents as well. LibreOffice 6.0 supports OpenPGP document signing and encryption as a major new feature on all desktop editions.Here is an overview of important changes in LibreOffice 6.0