Nobody knows quite what's been up with Firefox recently -- it's all bloated and slow and crashy.
The weather is pretty nice in Ubuntu Towne, though. I haven't had to do any kernel recompiling in quite a while, and it Just Recognizes all my hardware. Plug in my little mp3 player, it mounts it right there on the desktop.
(and for what it's worth? I have acrobat embedded in my Firefox at work, and I'm not a fan. I don't see what's wrong with evince? What are you using? ...)
See, I'm puzzled how Firefox can work fine in one OS and be slow in the other. It's the same codebase, so it should be pretty easy to figure out, neh?
I'm not a fan of Acrobat, but you can embed it into your browser, and I find that convenient, because I do LaTeX and Lilypond on my home machine, and hit "refresh" on the PDFs remotely to view the results. Without embedding, it becomes a two-step process: download, refresh (or download, re-open, which is even more work).
As for Linux PDF readers, I've tried a whole bunch, and most of them lack the functionality and elegance of Acrobat. (Ghostscript, ggv, etc.) KPDF works okay, but it's still just not as good. I'll give evince a try and see if it's any better.
Peter, I'm going to be getting a new laptop (macbook pro) here soon and I can send you my 12" powerbook (once I have the new computer and all of my files) if you want to at least try OSX. It's quite slow so it won't be able to do some of the things you want it to but you'll at least be able to play around with the OS a bit.
You know, that's actually pretty tempting. My old laptop is dead anyway, and I'd really like to have one. Let me know when you're about to move on to the new one and we'll talk.
Just keep in mind that OSX has a very different mentality from the other OSes. For example, the biggest difference (no not the dock) is that there is no maximize button. People keep thinking that the third button on the windows is a maximize button but it's not. In today's world of 17" laptops and 20, 24, and 30" desktop monitors, you don't want to maximize a window on that. This button is called the zoom button and is designed to resize the window to the most efficient available size. For example, it will resize a Safari window to be the width of the page you are viewing.
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Nobody knows quite what's been up with Firefox recently -- it's all bloated and slow and crashy.
The weather is pretty nice in Ubuntu Towne, though. I haven't had to do any kernel recompiling in quite a while, and it Just Recognizes all my hardware. Plug in my little mp3 player, it mounts it right there on the desktop.
(and for what it's worth? I have acrobat embedded in my Firefox at work, and I'm not a fan. I don't see what's wrong with evince? What are you using? ...)
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I'm not a fan of Acrobat, but you can embed it into your browser, and I find that convenient, because I do LaTeX and Lilypond on my home machine, and hit "refresh" on the PDFs remotely to view the results. Without embedding, it becomes a two-step process: download, refresh (or download, re-open, which is even more work).
As for Linux PDF readers, I've tried a whole bunch, and most of them lack the functionality and elegance of Acrobat. (Ghostscript, ggv, etc.) KPDF works okay, but it's still just not as good. I'll give evince a try and see if it's any better.
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Get a mac, for serious.
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Also -- why would a 17" laptop be different from a 17" desktop?
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