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Meanwhile the state of the UI/UX on Linux: I dare you to rotate your paper in LibreOffice Writer to ~~portrait~~ landscape in under a minute, if you haven't recently used the function.
<15 seconds.
Including starting LibreOffice Writer. This is on a 5400RPM HDD and Writer was definitely not cached, since I haven't opened it in days.
Now how long did it take to start MS Word on my laptop again?
To add one datapoint: I actually installed LibreOffice just now just to try it out. I went via
Format > Page Style > General [this tab was open by default] > Orientation: Landscape
If that is the correct way, then it was, IMO, hard to miss and fast to find. If it was the wrong way*, however then I'd say I find the menu labels misleading.
*I am not quite sure, because the dialogue had the Title "Page Style: Default Page Style", so I would have expected pages in new documents to now start out in landscape orientation, but I opened a new document, and the page was in portrait orientation. So, I think I did what I tried to do in spite of that (misleading?) dialogue title.