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Linux needs a decent productivity suite of apps (preview, mail, calendar etc) the current offering is terrible
by ostenning 5y ago
Linux needs a decent productivity suite of apps (preview, mail, calendar etc) the current offering is terrible
- fsflover 5y agohttps://linmobapps.frama.io/ https://linmobapps.frama.io/
- commoner 5y agoReplacements, all decent or better: - Preview: GNOME Document Viewer (now supports PDF form filling), Master PDF Editor (paid and proprietary), built-in PDF editor in Firefox/Chromium, Okular; GNOME Image Viewer, Gwenview, Pantheon Photos (part of elementary OS) - Mail: Thunderbird, Evolution, Kontact (KMail component), Geary, Pantheon Mail, Claws Mail, Mailspring - Calendar: Thunderbird (built-in calendar), GNOME Calendar, Evolution, Kontact (KOrganizer component), Pantheon Calendar
- ostenning 5y agoI’ve sincerely tried every mail and calendar client and they all fall short
- xtracto 5y agoA couple of weeks ago I needed to do some very simple PDF "editing": I had 2 PDFs (A and B) and I needed to get some pages 2 (of 5) from PDF-A and 2 (of 5) pages of PDF-B into a single PDF. I tried to do that on Linux Mint and it was a nightmare: Download PDFSam, create PDF from PDF-A with 2 pages, create PDF from PDF-B with 2 pages and then merge those 2 PDFs. The way I achieve that in my Mac is by opening both file in preview, select and drag the pages I want from PDF-A to PDF-B and then select and delete the pages I don't want from PDF-B. Why do these simple things have to be so cumbersome in Linux in 2021?
- commoner 5y agoThey don't have to be! Either PDF Arranger or PDF Slicer would rearrange and move pages between PDF files much more easily than PDFsam can. Take your pick: https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger https://github.com/junrrein/pdfslicer https://github.com/junrrein/pdfslicer