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Re:My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular by michaelmrose on Monday March 25, 2019 @03:50PM (#19486123)
What can you possibly object to about how it runs on linux? Its wholly reasonable that kde apps all build on the same foundation rather than each one bundle their own version of libraries.

If the entire rest of your desktop happens to be based on gnome for example you end up with *doctor evil expression" HUNDREDS OF MB of extra libraries once the first time you install a kde app. Perish the thought.

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Re:My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular by burtonator on Monday March 25, 2019 @04:11PM (#19486317)
Did I say something in my comment that makes it sound like Okular doesn't run amazingly well on Linux?

I was talking about if you run it on Windows or MacOS.

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Re:My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular by gh02t on Monday March 25, 2019 @04:19PM (#19486390)
> First, if you like Okular, you're stuck if you want to run on any other platform. It doesn't work on mobile, it doesn't work on the web, doesn't work on Linux, MacOS or Windows

You did directly say it doesn't run on Linux. Even with your qualification I don't think that's fair. It requires the KDE libs, yes, but that's not really a high cost apart from some disk space. Apart from that, it obviously runs perfectly well even in another desktop environment. I even use it on my Chromebook.

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Re:My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular by burtonator on Monday March 25, 2019 @04:53PM (#19486658)
AH!!! ok.. definitely my fault. I meant to say it's not really cross-platform and doesn't run on all platforms.

This was a big requirement for me - the ability to move between all platforms.

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