This is a small yet significant tip which I had to find after hours of installs and re-installs and hair tearing. After upgrading to OO 3.0, the quickstart icon wouldn't stay after a reboot, this problem has been discussed elsewhere as well but with no viable solution. What happens is the .config folder gets a broken link placed in it and on subsequent reboots, it vanishes. The trick to keeping the link right is to enable quickstart in the pre-installed 00 2.4, then install OO 3.0 over it and all the settings including the correct quick start link is preserved and no more vanishing issues after reboot.
For some this may be trivial but for daily OO users, quick start is quintessential even in Ubuntu where its much faster than in Windows, the quickstart makes it lightning fast to load, also its way more convenient than digging through menus to access various OO apps.
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