On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Les Denham <lden...@hal-pc.org> wrote: > Firstly, the version of Linux is not all that important. I've had good > experiences with Ubuntu in the past, but thanks to some idiotic (in my > opinion) decisions recently by the maintainers of both Gnome and KDE > and by Ubuntu for its default desktop, I've given up on Ubuntu, Gnome, > and KDE, all three of which I have used happily in the past. For the > average user now I would recommend Linux Mint (which just works even > more smoothly than Ubuntu) and, for those willing to learn a little or a > lot about what is behind the pretty windows, either Sabayon or Gentoo. > Whichever distro you choose, change the window manager to XFCE or LXDE. > It was somewhat implied, but to make it explicit, there is no need to drop Ubuntu because of the recent Gnome3/Unity fiasco: you can always change to Xubuntu (or Lubuntu). Personally I've been using Xfce for the past 5-7 years and I always found it---as far as the core apps are concerned---superior to Gnome 2.
> If you are using "PDF for everything else" you definitely need > pdfimages (part of the Poppler library) and pdftk. > Another suggestion would be PDF Chain [1], a nice GUI interface to pdftk. Liviu [1] http://alternativeto.net/software/pdf-chain/
