ComeHereOrIHookYou

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I use Gnome document viewer on Gnome and Okular when on KDE when viewing PDFs.

For editing PDFs, always was used to PDF Studio. I heard LibreOffice Draw is decent but never bothered trying it as I am happy with my current workflow... for now.

PS: PDF Studio is a one time purchase

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Linux is great for some stuff, but unless there's massive upgrades to where you can just hit "install" and something installs and works without fucking around in terminal

https://i.imgur.com/JFbxr3a.mp4

Wait what!? I just mark file as executable, run as program, and click nex then install.

Also on a more serious note, how easy is it to find apps on the software store too (yes, because most linux distros offer a software store now)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if it isn't, this is going to be one, I'll put this as my "Windows is better than Linux copypasta"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meanwhile at Google... Problem: People are flocking away from Chrome Solution: Implement webpage DRM

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Note: This draft is a rought and long and I have a lot of things to say about this matter, also I haven't sleep yet, so pardon if it is a bit confusing

How Chrome won over the web is a combination of marketing tactics, change of user interests and timing.

Marketing tactics since there was a time where Google use to bundle Chrome as optional checkbox on several freeware application installers. This may be shady but it helped immensly in the Google Chrome adoption, as most users did not hear about Google Chrome (or did not notice). Helps alot also that their website also helped advertised their new Chrome browser which is touted to be better and faster.

Change of user interests because Firefox started to get slower and slower pre quantum update. It was really so bad that the user experience became clunky and laggy as Firefox runs longer overtime. I mean sure e10s helped speed up things but it wasn't enough to be atleast close to on par with Chrome and users actually notice this.

It does not helped too that Chrome bundles flash player by default which also helped change the interests of the masses. For a casual, why would they bother installing Firefox and Adobe flash player seperately when they can install Chrome which is faster and has flash player integrated by default?

Finally the timing, because as the web has continuously evolved, Google being always on top of the adoption of standards (well to be honest, Google has been pushing the standards for years now that it is safe to assume Google is now the standard, lmao) helped the widespread adoption during the times that:

  • The web was moving away from flash player
  • There was a boom in web app chat apps as standalone chat apps began to die out
  • The rise of PWA
  • Support for DRM of multimedia webapps (well now they're pushing for DRM on the web pages), and you know how normie users use to think if their site works on Chrome and not on Firefox

Competitions where focused on adopting to the standards and Google took note of this as they sway everyone to their side until it was too late for the rest.

Mind you during the 2011-2013, there was a massive flock of Chrome users and this is because Firefox may have been super customizable from the getgo, Chrome originally lacked extensions support but as soon as the Chrome extension store came out, it was already an uphill battle for Mozilla as they where focused on adopting to the evolving standard, it took them time to catch up with the user experience causing the bleeding of userbase.

It does not even helped that they had a hard time adopting to the ever evolving standards because their manpowered was shifted all over the place due to Mozilla's other focus of trying to be not dependent on Google's income. I am referring to projects such as Firefox OS.

Honestly during the massive growth of Chrome era between 2011-2018, the only one that had a chance to stop it was Microsoft but well Internet Explorer and Edge was always behind on updates mainly because they tied their updates to Windows updates which was known to be slow and clunky. So even if we consider Mozilla having a bleeding userbase problem, Microsoft actually had it worse, lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I remember encountering this issue before I switxhed to a more powerful one that can run multiple apps in parralel (split screen)

I didnt think it still existed now, but following the bug tracker, did you do the dom.ipc.processPrelaunch.lowmem_mb modification? I am quite curious

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Problem: Decrease of Twitter Blue subscribers

Solution: Sue every other competitor for alleged infringing Twitter's trade secrets

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You need to delve deeper; from what I can see, there are people worshipping not only Google and Microsoft but even Meta!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

What I find funny is that Ben or one of his few colleagues that helped write the draft closed the Github page over the weekend because of pressure and promises to open it back on monday or something.

Well seems like that is not going to happen now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I mean sure why not! lmao

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Damn, that's even better!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There is a possibility!

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