Most Democrats will and have said the same thing.
Oddly... Trump admin people know better than that... but I'm not expecting them to actually do anything differently than what you suggest. Probably both are already captured by whatever data has already been found on them.
several reasons:
they both think they're in control of it... but mostly because the people funding most of them (same people) are telling them not to.. often in the form of police unions and relevant organizations
any party large enough to win anything is going to be mostly co-opted... you gotta vote for individuals... not parties.
same reason most democrats don't
Ugg.... I suspected when I kept seeing more of these things in parking lots and roads. Guess, now I know for sure.
Adobe used to make a linux version of acrobat reader that will probably do the trick. You're not going to find it on adobe's download site, but it is still there at the link this tutorial uses. I just checked.
Not what you are looking for... but I work in print and often need to edit pdfs in a much more base level. Inkscape can be a pretty powerful program for that.
'PDF Arranger' is a good program if all you need to do is rearrange or combine pages in one or more pdf files.
I’ve been using Photoshop for over 20 years.
I hear ya. I'm a print designer and the biggest hole is scribus. It is impressive for how good it is in the last few years, but is no where close to where I need it to be for pro work compared to indesign.
But, I think Krita is definitely good enough to do what I need photoshop for... and Krita is better in some ways. Like for illustration work. Krita is better than GIMP for my uses because it has the strong color model functionality that GIMP doesn't have. Mostly that would be the CMYK functionality. GIMP only exports to CMYK. You can't work directly in it. You need that for print design.
Interestingly, the biggest problem is the whole "using Photoshop for over 20 years" (30 for me) thing.
After several years so much of what we do with these programs becomes second nature and we don't have to think about it. Even if the other program is better, it takes a lot to get to that level with a new program. I'm trying to use Krita more and more and I still feel like I am no where close to that goal. albeit... somewhat closer..
While GIMP does have a clunky interface, I think part of that is that we just aren't as familiar with it as the program we have been using for decades.
I don't know what you use gimp for, but Krita might be worth a shot. Although I think if you only work in RGB and only do "photo shop" kind of tasks, GIMP may still be better.
I was one of those people who switched during the early Ubuntu days of 2006/2007.
First heard about it and gave it a try in 1995 when a friend told me about it in college. I was/am a graphics artist so it wasn't an option then. But I knew then that it probably would eventually get there and windows would keep getting more evil and that I would switch. So I started switching from proprietary software solutions to open source whenever possible so that it would be easier to do when the day arrived.
So... in 2006 I was hearing a lot of talk about linux finally being easier to use and setup with a lot of gui functionality. Which is required for graphics work. Although, I had adobe at work and was there most of the week, so I didn't really care anymore about having that at home. And the stuff I played around with was blender and the like.
I was also getting out of the habit of gaming. I had been really into FPS. Mainly the half-life mod "Day of Defeat" where I was doing the clam competition thing. But I burnt out on it and didn't really care as much. But I did dual boot for a while with gaming in mind. It was about a year later when I realized that I hadn't booted into Windows for several months (and I needed the hard drive space) that I scrubbed it.
So here I am.
I still use Ubuntu variations mostly. Although I intend on switching to Devuan. I've been experimenting with it on a laptop to get it just the way I want it before switching my desktops. I'm still struggling with btrfs snapshots. I thought I had it recently, then I broke it somehow. I'm still not entirely clear what the whole snapshot thing is doing. But I look forward to getting there soon. I hope to make this my final linux setup for the next decade at least.
Do you have a large swap? Seems like that should keep it from completely freezing and just result in extreme slowing.
lol at the retro gaming. ;]
Fair question.
It is something I turn off so I don't remember for sure. Typically it comes up during the installation process. If your distro is using "Software Updater" it should be an option in it's settings called "automatically check for updates". This is on Ubuntu 25.04. Although it has been updated a few times from the version it was originally.
But whatever program is being used for updates should have options that will probably get you there.
Looks good... but I think the real question is what you can run with only 1 gig of ram. Have you tried different web browsers to see if you can get a common modern web site to work? I think you'd have to use adblock heavily in order to keep the usage down. Even if you never use more than one tab. But curious about what your results have been?
Cause 'muh freedom'
The younger users may not be aware of this... but privacy and freedom were big concerns about the internet since at least the early nineties. We knew that the moment of being ignored was only going to last a little while and it was commonly discussed. And it was already discussed about how insecure windows was and rumors of their back doors and the like.
In that light... when I first heard about linux in 1995 and gave slackware a try one weekend I knew that eventually I was going to switch. But I was/am a graphics artist and 1995 was too soon for doing that kind of stuff at the professional level on linux. But I knew the day would come, so I consciously started switching to open source apps instead of cracked proprietary apps.
Around 2006-2007 there was a lot of talk about projects like Ubuntu making linux highly functional for a graphics person and relatively "easy" to get running. By that time the only proprietary software I was using was Adobe, which I only cared about using while at work and a couple games. And even then, running adobe inside of virtualbox was an option. I dual booted and after about 1-2 months I reached the point where I finally was comfortable enough to not ever go back. After about a year and realizing I hadn't booted into windows for about 4 months, I erased that partition. I've never looked back.
I found this to be the most interesting part:
Last time I read about this issue was before this happened. Finally the ball is bouncing back a little. Hope to see more of it.