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Re:My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular by m000 on Monday March 25, 2019 @05:13PM (#19486790)
The Electron bloat of Polar buys you much better cross-platform features than the KDE bloat of Okular.

Okular is ok as long as you run only linux. In theory you could run it also on macOS or Windows, but you have to jump through the hoops. That's not optimal for a productivity application.

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Re:My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular by anoncake on Monday March 25, 2019 @05:46PM (#19487036)
What kind of cross-platform features does Electron provide that Okular does not have?
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Re:My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular by m000 on Monday March 25, 2019 @06:15PM (#19487237)
I just told you: a friggin installer. All cross-platorm features are inconsequential if you can't easily distribute the application on multiple platforms in the first place.
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Re:My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular by michaelmrose on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @12:23PM (#19493238)
Here in linux land we don't give a damn about installers. We prefer to install and update all software via a single interface.
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