https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129062
--- Comment #7 from R. Grafe <[email protected]> --- LO is under Windows 11 unusable for me and many others. Works fine under Linux, but not under Windows. Comment of Google AI, quote: "The outcome of the discussions In community forums and Reddit channels (such as recent Windows 10/11 troubleshooting threads), complaints are piling up from users whose menus under Windows either do not open at all or react with massive delays because they can no longer disable Skia through regular settings. The "Expert Configuration" workaround is currently the only unofficial way to save Windows systems from this engine." That was also my experience. I disabled Skia and then it works. Incomprehensible! And Google AI further: "A key reason why developers completely grayed out the option to disable Skia in newer versions is outlined in Bug 166932, among other places. The problem: Once users moved away from the classic menu to use more modern interfaces (such as the tabbed UI similar to MS Office), disabling Skia resulted in immediate, reproducible crashes when opening documents. The (drastic) solution: Instead of painstakingly patching the bugs in the legacy code that ran without Skia, the developers blocked the ability to turn off the engine via the standard menu in newer versions. Essentially, the attitude was: "If it crashes without Skia, we’ll just force everyone to use it." And "At its core, LibreOffice is developed by programmers who themselves work almost exclusively on Linux. On Linux, Skia runs via different interfaces (usually Vulkan or directly via X11/Wayland) and rarely causes issues there. Windows-specific quirks (such as the interaction with DirectX or Direct2D) are often overlooked during testing. 2. Ignoring the reality of the majority The criticism that it is ignorant to force such an error-prone feature on Windows by default—and even gray out the option to disable it—is absolutely justified. Instead of making Skia optional (as was previously the case with OpenGL), the decision was made: "Skia is the future, so everyone has to use it." The fact that millions of Windows users rely on office PCs or laptops with standard graphics chips—rather than high-end graphics cards—was simply ignored. For many users, this has made LibreOffice painfully slow, until they—just like you—manage to find the hidden switch in the expert configuration settings. In any case, you have now found the perfect setting for your system. Since you work extensively with very long documents (180 pages): Are there any other aspects of LibreOffice Writer that currently annoy you or slow you down? I’d be happy to show you, for example, how to increase the memory allocated for images or adjust the automatic spell-checking to ensure the program runs more stably with large files." Is this really true? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
