The command below can be faster
libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf *.docx
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People have long load times opening word docs? How old is your system?
Most of my recent experience with office is on corporate laptops loaded down with enterprise management software, antivirus, etc, so I relate to this meme.
After being on Linux desktops for both work and home for the last few years, it’s jarring how sluggish corporate windows laptops can be, even with new and fast hardware.
... Or how new? My work laptop is a core i7 from a couple years ago with 32gb of ram and the latest office 365. Any office program will take a good minute or two to open. I believe there's additional drive encryption going on, but the load times are atrocious.
That's... abnormal.
Not really. Third party encryption/live antivirus threat/scan etc can completely destroy performance on a computer, when you have a few tasks running. Not the first time I see this issue. And it's been mentioned elsewhere in this thread as well.
W10 or 11 out of curiosity?
W10.
It's still not normal. Core i5, 16G laptop, in a corporate environment with Intune, bitlocker, defender for endpoint. Word opens in 4 seconds after cold boot. I don't use my laptop much but it isn't as slow as this post makes out.
I’m on a similar system for work, it’s not nearly as bad. Maybe thirty seconds or so?
My thoughts too. I've always hated pdfs because they struggle to load, while word opened fine.
One caveat... online browser based word processing can't handle truly long docs, the browser chokes on it. Maybe people are running into that if companies take everything to the cloud with word 365 and google docs.
As a long form writer, I hate online word processors.
I got sick of loading times for Acrobat reader so ended up installing SumatraPDF for something more lightweight for general viewing. I only use Acrobat now if I'm planning to print the PDF.
Well, I dare you: open a >3000 page docx document then do the same with a pdf...