This popped up on my work laptop yesterday. Very annoying.

  • KillerTofu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I have to have adobe install on my work computer and fuck it’s intrusive everythingness. Fuck em.

    • Granixo@feddit.clEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Nobody needs Adobe’s PDF Reader or Creative Tools anymore.

      There are alternatives all over the web.

      • KillerTofu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Sure, I don’t use it on my personal devices but I can’t install the better tools on my work computer.

        • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Right, or unless you work in an industry where photoshop, illustrator, indesign, premiere, or after effects are the standard. There’s plenty of great software out there, but good luck opening a complex photoshop document in anything but photoshop, or a complex premiere pro project in anything but premiere. It sucks to be chained to their products, but it’s naive to say “nobody needs them, just switch”

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            7 months ago

            There’s also a compatibility issue between different people. If you don’t use Premiere, but everyone else does, sharing work is going to be a problem.

    • Mabexer@feddit.itEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Yep! But sadly I still have to use Adobe when I need to sign documents…

      • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
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        7 months ago

        I straight up tell companies to mail the form to me now.

        All my banking is on paper, insurance, etc…its ALL paper copies. I’m not filtering through 4000 spam emails from companies to find my shit, then deal with subscriptions and other crap just to send things back.

        Send me paper, and I will mail it back. Countless companies just can’t process things anymore, it’s hilarious

  • Z4rK@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I can hardly remember the last time any notification was not some kind of spam or self-notification.

    I turn 99.95% of notifications off on any platform. The worst offenders are the apps that will show me a permanent in-app notification that I have turned off notification permissions… especially those that do so blocking the regular UI of the app to tell me this. Even some apps I’ve paid for do this. I condemn those to the deepest pits of app-hell.

  • kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I don’t touch Adobe software. Not only due to the abusive subscription, but even the pirated versions will install Creative Cloud and a thousand supporting applications that permanently modify your Windows shell, explorer, scheduled tasks and many more system features.

    • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Dude I did it on my previous pc and it was super aids to fully remove it. Never again, I’m sticking with Foss as much as possible now. Photopea is great as a photoshop alternative for anyone who isn’t a professional.

        • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Last time I used gimp was like 6 years ago so take my opinion with a grain of salt but I do feel Photopea is easier to use.

          I have no idea which one is more powerful but for the average lowly user like myself Photopea has had all I need and then some. It’s also a browser only application which for me is a boon but I can see some people preferring a download instead. I would recommend going on the site and messing around a bit to get a feel, it’s free to use.

  • supangle@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    7 months ago

    use linux on daily basis, far better for your mental health. you can use virtual machine to work with these shitty softwares, or you can always dual-boot. make the switch!

    • JustARegularNerd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      OP mentions in the post details that this is a work laptop. Switching to Linux also isn’t as simple for most people. I’m fairly technically minded and I still took nearly a year to fully switch, and I decided a year ago that to just not have the headache of virtual machines and/or dual booting, I’m back daily driving Windows because my degree requires me to use stuff that only works on Windows.

      For you it may have been a pretty quick switch because your circumstances would’ve almost certainly differed.

      That’s why I think you’re being down voted. If we want to drive Linux adoption, this isn’t the way and never was.

      • supangle@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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        7 months ago

        didn’t read that it’s a work device, but beginner linux distros are easy to install, like windows. OP probably shouldn’t install another os on work device. making the switch is easy for the most people and you can use windows whenever you want besides it. linux adaptation has nothing to do with my comment. i don’t care about my downvotes, what os people use or linux user percentage, but they should be aware of their options if these things annoy them. if windows works for you, and these things don’t annoy you, you can happily use it.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 months ago

          making the switch is easy for the most people

          That is nonsense. I am not an IT professional by any means, but I am savvy enough to make my way through an OS and I still had a hard time getting Mint to work the way I needed it to without looking up a bunch of tutorials and entering in a bunch of terminal commands, something that most people would find a huge challenge.

          And that doesn’t even go into the problems I had installing it in the first place. And Mint is supposed to be the easiest one.

          I like Linux, but suggesting it’s so easy anyone can use it is ridiculous. My 82-year-old mother would not be able to figure it out very easily, nor would my 13-year-old daughter. Could they figure it out? Potentially. But easy? Definitely not.

          I don’t think you realize that the average computer user doesn’t know much beyond how to go to their favorite websites, write email, play a few games, etc. An OS with a learning curve is not something they would find easy.

          • supangle@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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            7 months ago

            i guess you’re right about the “average” user. i forgot the nanny.

            integrating every aspect of the customization to os itself is tricky but i think distros in general already have pretty good customization settings natively. you can do themes, icons etc.

            you should explain the word “customization” a bit more.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              7 months ago

              Customization = getting it to do what you want, which can be a pain in the ass even for basic functions. Here’s an example I had to deal with: hot corners in both Windows and MacOS let you turn off the display so you can do things like play a YouTube video at night to listen to as you fall asleep, but also not lock the screen or put the machine to sleep entirely. I had to look up how to make it do what is a simple thing to achieve in the other two big OSes.

              There really should not be a learning curve for “if you put your cursor here, the display turns off.”

              • supangle@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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                7 months ago

                yeah, i get it, but it´s the same thing if you´re switching from windows to macos or the other way around. you loose searching capability [which is cmd + space] if you switch to windows, and you need a seperate app for window tiling in macos. lots of people agree that linux is the most customizable os in the market compared to macos and windows, they even have a seperate subreddit in reddit just for “ricing” which means customizing linux, you can look them in r/unixporn. btw, you have the option to run a command while using hot corners, it´s directly in the system settings. here´s a screenshot that i took just now.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    The pop-ups on my desktop are the driving force behind me finally looking into Linux.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Between that, the installation of programs like HP smart, copilot, and Dev Home without my consent. OneDrive being trash. Start menu being slow ever since they deployed copilot even with it shut off. All the tricks to get you to run Edge. The list just keeps growing.

      The notifications to get you to change notification settings on a program like Microsoft to-do not being run in a while just take the cake. I’ll run my apps if and when I want to. STFU M$. I pay you for an operating system to run my computer. Not to fight with it constantly.

      • melpomenesclevage@lemm.eeEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Linux is easier than windows now. Not because Linux got easier (it did, though not enough), but because windows is just getting so much worse so fucking fast.

        • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          7 months ago

          That’s hilariously so true. Have been completely comfortable using Linux as a primary OS, in my case, I decided, “well Windows 10 was pretty johnny on the spot, so maybe I’ll use Windows 11 for a spell.” 10 was mostly usable, then 11 was “hey we have this always-update model of 10 in place, let’s make 11 all about constant dark pattern pushes?” May literally be the last time I use or ever recommend the platform in any capacity.

          Not even talking about how W11 can’t successfully sleep or hibernate on most computers I’ve seen it on. I was in a computer shop helping someone pick out a laptop a while back, local place. They configured all the PC laptops to never sleep because Windows 11 sleep is so buggy. How is it 2024 and Windows is worse at sleep than it was in 2001?

  • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    get sumatrapdf.

    havent been on windows in a while, but im assuming its still.the great lightweight viewer it used to be.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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      7 months ago

      It is. I have trouble making it the default reader. Stuff still opens in Edge. Not sure what the deal is.

      • Zarlin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Had that issue too, search in Start for “Default Apps”, then scroll to the bottom and click “Choose default application by file type”. Then scroll to .pdf and choose Sumatra. The settings window may crash for some reason, but for me the file association did seem to stick after that.

        • ProfessorProteus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 months ago

          I haven’t had a crash happen on that screen but it takes its fucking time loading a non-paginated list of thousands of elements. And there’s no search bar IIRC. MS made this process as painful as possible and I’m convinced that that’s exactly the way they want it.