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submitted 17 hours ago by adrianhooves@lemmy.today to c/linux@lemmy.ml

this is a topic i've been heavily involved with because i still consider myself to be someone who prefers using technology at a very beginner friendly level, plus it's very good when a linux operating system makes you feel right at home when it has a modern desktop environment. this is why i really like gnome, its simplicity and usability is something available for everyone, for beginners and for a lot of other people, but if you had to, say, rearrange xfce or kde for someone who was an elderly person or an absolute beginner so that they wouldn't have any trouble using linux, how would you do it? (screenshot is my current linux mint desktop, very simple and extremely user friendly!!!!)

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[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 8 points 17 hours ago

All good ideas, IMO.

And I had to look this up, so:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okular

Okular is a multiplatform document viewer developed by the KDE community and based on Qt and KDE Frameworks libraries. It is distributed as part of the KDE Applications bundle

And I'm a KDE user! ʘ‿ʘ

[-] kadup@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

Yep! Okular is amazing, and it's available on Windows too. Install it for someone and they'll never bother you again about PDFs or EPUB documents, it's performant and everything works: printing, resizing, selecting text, searching, signing, adding comments. Never worry about paid PDF software or shady slow apps that keep trying to gatekeep features.

[-] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 16 hours ago

Okular is awesome. I use it even on gnome.

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