This popped up on my work laptop yesterday. Very annoying.
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Adobe is a cancer the second it is installed. Avoid this shitty company if possible, there’s loads of fantastic and better alternatives to their products these days.
It’s a work laptop. My personal stuff is running FOSS.
Is there an actual decent alternative that does digital signatures with CACs that doesn’t also require a costly subscription?
https://kbpdfstudio.qoppa.com/signing-pdfs-with-cac-under-linux/
Does any of that work?
Have a recommendation for replacing Lightroom? Having a hard time finding an good alternative photo catalog mgmt solution.
Replying in the hope you get a solid answer to this. I need a good photo workflow tool and would like it to be FOSS.
Not really my kind of thing, so I don’t. While adobe is a pile of shit, they do admittedly have some good software under all the extra shit piled on top and their suite is a lot larger than I remember these days!
Darktable (or the fork Ansel) or Rawtherapee and Digikam should get you where you need to be.
I have to have adobe installed on my work computer and fuck it’s intrusive everythingness. Fuck em.
Nobody needs Adobe’s PDF Reader or Creative Tools anymore.
There are alternatives all over the web.
Update: I meant for personal use. I know that workplaces force us to use the same tools (and same versions of said tools) that they use.
… Unless mandated by IT.
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”
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.
Sure, I don’t use it on my personal devices but I can’t install the better tools on my work computer.
PDF Gear is the free alternative I use. Adobe can
eatread a dick.Firefox can open/edit PDFs too.
Damn, didin’t know about that! 😁👍
How do you edit a locked PDF? What is the alternative?
Time to take away the notification permission of reader.
Or take away Adobe and use an alternative.
Or put away Windows use an alternative.
Not everyone has that option. I can only used approved software. Took 3 months to get WSL and Hyper-V approved for my desktop
You got Hyper-V approved on a work desktop? Man I wish I had that much luck.
There’s a reason I have my windows configured for do not disturb/focus mode, I can’t say I’ve seen a notification come through that was actually relevant for me. The vast majority of what I’ve seen come through notifications are app spam, and I ain’t got time for that
Agreed. Seems the notification tray in Windows is just a catch-all for spam (mostly from MS themselves)
Nah, browsers are so much worse, but that’s because most users blindly accept notifications from any sketch website then call and cry to IT because they “got a virus”.
I don’t miss my days supporting end users…
We configured an allowlist of domains allowed to send notifications through our GPOs, everything else is blocked to the end-users. It reduced the amount of calls related to “virus alert” for sure.
First thing I do when I open Firefox or Chrome for the first time is go into settings and disable the ability for websites to request notifications permissions
I absolutely hate when Windows will give you a different notification for each email that comes in, then an additional one to tell you “mail has new messages.” Get out of my fucking way!
As far as I can tell outlook will call out the title of the first 3 emails in a minute, then if further emails arrive you get the general message.
Its really just a ‘we are rate limiting our notifications, check your inbox’ message.
The pop-ups on my desktop are the driving force behind me finally looking into Linux.
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.
just that?
Everyone has a breaking point, it’s always better to embrace them when they reach it.
Of course not just that but it’s the last straw.
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.
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.
This company is insufferable.
get sumatrapdf.
havent been on windows in a while, but im assuming its still the great lightweight viewer it used to be.
It is. I have trouble making it the default reader. Stuff still opens in Edge. Not sure what the deal is.
the deal is probably windows lol
they do push very hard for us to use it
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
.pdfand choose Sumatra. The settings window may crash for some reason, but for me the file association did seem to stick after that.
My daughter needs Windows on her notebook for school. The OneDrive popups that you can never turn off, only silence for a month, on Windows 10 are enough to piss me off on her behalf.
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.
Firefox can open and edit PDFs, just uninstall the Adobe junk.
Wait it can edit PDFs? Huh who knew! Thnx for the tip.
It is a relatively new feature
Sumatra PDF for the win(dows).
Yep! But sadly I still have to use Adobe when I need to sign documents…
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
Uninstall and use a different PDF reader. I’m partial to sumatra PDF.
Sumatra is fantastic for reading PDFs, but it can’t edit them. In that case I recommend PDF Gear.
Or FF
Crap like this is why I use Corel.
Win11 is full of these kinds of ads, especially for OneDrive and Office
Win 10 too.
