I currently don't like adobe because of the lack of x64 support for flash > no web games/movies
On 16 September 2010 13:46, pmgazz <pmg...@gmx.co.uk> wrote: > I had a similar heart-searching around Adobe Air - I work with non-profits > for whom fundraising is core - most funders issue badly-constructed pdf > forms and trying to fill these in with Evince is still a work in progress. I > can manage to do it because I know Evince fairly well and what it can and > can't do and don't mind working around it - my clients were having total > nervous breakdowns. > > Getting rid of Adobe's ghastly, bloated and tentacled reader was a major > plus in moving to Ubuntu for me ;) However, my clients really really > weren't coping. I now put Acroread onto Ubuntu Desktops where people need to > deal with pdf forms. Hate it, but there it is. > > And, until I upgraded to 10.04 and BBC iPlayer didn't, I used to install > Air (grumbling all the way) so I can run the iPlayer on my desktop. I'm > really committed to Free Software but I'm not a hermit ;) > > By the way, is there something we could (collectively) do to hassle the BCC > to sort out the iPlayer for Lucid (and Maverick - or is it fixed on > Maverick? I haven't had time to install it yet). > > Paula > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >
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