On Wednesday 25 March 2026 20:46:48 Andrew Randrianasulu via tde-users wrote:
Dare I ask what CPU and how much RAM you have?
I don't have my specs ready at hand. However, I attached a jpeg of the manufacturer's description. It's not a super-duper gaming machine, but for a basic laptop, not bad.
However, I ought to say that I have hacked it extensively, although that has nothing to do with LibreOffice, which has never run at all on this machine. At present, my machine has no hard drive at all, as both the original 128 gb SSD, *and* the brand-new 2 tb SSD which I bought, both got fried when my neighbor blew the fuse for everybody in this part of my building.
So my entire operating system dwells on a flash drive, which is partitioned with root, swap and home directories.
Hm, may be your strange "LO is stuck for minutes" problem originates here.
No. As I said, LO has *never* run on this machine. My experiences with LibreOffice happened on different machines. My machine has been running just fine like this for more than two years now.
Cheap flash drives definitely failed to be fast enough for Slackware -current, even if different brand/type of usb flash drive worked.
You can try to boot small version of OS into ram (should work with 8 Gb ram) and see if hangs are gone.
There are no hangs -- at least, not with LO. I sometimes get hangs when I download emails, or when I try to use yt-dlp to download videos; that kind of thing.
Aside from network issues, over which I have no control, my system at present runs as I want. I don't currently run LibreOffice, never ran it on this machine. I am recounting my experiences of a few years ago, before I figured out how to install the new Apache OpenOffice.
Or play with mount settings for home/root partition.
Try zram/swap instead of raw swap partition on flash drive?