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No more slowness and malware. You know you don't have to use it, free software alternatives

http://pdfreaders.org/

Free yourself instead: http://pdfreaders.org/

Use free open source software instead:
http://pdfreaders.org/

Are you saying that Ubuntu has a way to automatically download an ARM version of FireFox and OpenOffice?

I don't know about Ubuntu but Debian most certainly has Firefox and OpenOffice packages for ARM that are ready to use.

Even then, what about Flash and Adobe Reader? How am I going to play my favorite YouTube videos and Facebook games?

Do you really want to use a proprietary browser plugin with a horrible security history like Adobe Flash, with _known_ vulnerabilities that have been unpatched for over 8 months?
With new open technologies like HTML5, Flash is becoming more and more obsolete anyway.
YouTube videos can be easily downloaded and played with mplayer. Gnash, a reverse-engineered libre replacement for Adobe Flash, gets better continuously. Many Flash applications already work with Gnash, like YouTube or the flash photo galleries generated by some Adobe applications.

The libre software situtation is much better when it comes to PDF, as PDF is, unlike Flash, an open standard. There are plenty of libre alternatives to Adobe Reader, most of them less bloated and way faster than the original. The FSF has launched a portal site for those.

"...you'll need to download a PDF reader such as Adobe Reader [insert link], Foxit [insert link], ... if you want to view it"

No, no, no!

It's "you'll need to download a PDF reader".

pdfreaders.org even has free icons which you can use to replace the more usual Adobe-based PDF icons.

"...you'll need to download a PDF reader such as Adobe Reader [insert link], Foxit [insert link], ... if you want to view it"

No, no, no!

It's "you'll need to download a PDF reader".

pdfreaders.org even has free icons which you can use to replace the more usual Adobe-based PDF icons.

Everything else is going low-cal, low-carb, lite and dry, how about a simple PDF reader?

Not a problem. Just try applying one of the patches found on this site to substantially upgrade the performance and reliability of Acrobat Reader. To avoid system instability you may need to uninstall your old version of Acrobat before upgrading.

...or just get a PDF reader that's free software.

Sumatra PDF Do I want to trust something that comes from "blog.kowalczyk.info"?

Oh, I don't know.. Depends whether you trust FSF then. Trust hierarchy:
http://www.fsf.org/
http://www.fsfeurope.org/
http://pdfreaders.org/
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/index.html

You surely won't find problem discovering the links between those sites, as it took me no more than two minutes.

For what it's worth, I use SumatraPDF for my LaTeX writings, as it's extremely small and fast, and renders some images better than Adobe Reader.

Foxit Reader is proprietary, no more inspectable or modifiable than Adobe's PDF reader and therefore no more trustworthy than any other proprietary software. No proprietary software is not a good solution to the problems faced with Adobe's proprietary PDF Reader. You are merely jumping from one proprietor to another.

A reasonable recommendation is a FLOSS PDF reader such as Sumatra, Skim, or one of the other fine PDF readers recommended by PDFReaders.org.

Okular has no chance there. Not amongst regular Windows users at least.

Step 1 - Go to PDFreaders.org - no issue
Step 2 - Click on "Download" on the intersection between Okular and Windows - no issue
Step 3 - Click "Download latest installer for immediate installation. - no issue
Step 4 - Run the KDE installer - not so much an issue, as what it does is
Step 5 - Click Next - "install from Internet" is the default setting, sounds reasonable
Step 6 - Select a download server - "What the hell did I just download then?"
Step 7 - Select an available release - Ehh? Whut?
Step 8 - Select the package you want to install - Well, that's just fucked up. 140+ packages to choose from. They're sorted by package name ONLY, cannot sort by package notes.
Step 9 - Look for something called Okular as package name. None found
Step 10 - "Oh, well, maybe these are packages I want in addition to Okular. I mean, I downloaded the Okular installer, right?"
Step 11 - Click Next
Step 12 - Installation/Update finished
Step 13 - Realise that NOTHING has been installed.
Step 14 - Get annoyed
Step 15 - Call tech support (realise this is a free program and there's noone to yell at)
Step 16 - Download and run the installer again (because they forgot where they downloaded it to)
Step 17 - Get to the package list and start reading very carefully
Step 18 - Wonder why the hell the package list goes Czech, Kashubian, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian [spelling package]
Step 19 - Realise there's still no Okular package anywhere
Step 20 - Read the list for the 3rd time and note that "Graphics applications" has a note "(including Okular)"
Step 21 - Wonder why the hell the download Okular link from before doesn't give you the fucking package to begin with
Step 22 - Notice that you're now downloading 40 (forty!) packages from the servers
Step 23 - Notice that one of these files are 60+ MB
Step 24 - Wonder why they call Acrobat Reader bloated and slow when that installer is less than 25 MB and takes about 30 seconds to install, just by clicking Next until you're done.
Step 25 - Notice that you now have a folder called "Programs" in your Start menu's program folder, which is aparently a sym-link to the program folder (doesn't point to itself though)
Step 26 - Find the "KDE 4.22 Release" folder in Programs and notice these programs:

• Help
• Graphics\More Applications\KColorChooser (Color Chooser)
• Graphics\More Applications\KRuler (Screen Ruler)
• Graphics\Gwenview (Image Viewer)
• Graphics\KolourPaint (Paint Program)
• Graphics\Okular (Document Viewer)
• Network\KNetAttach (Network Folder Wizard)

Step 27 - Wonder once more why the hell people call Acrobat Reader bloated when this program installs with 5 extra programs.
Step 28 - Start the bloody program!
Step 29 - KConf_update.exe would like to run. So, Acrobat Reader running its updater - Bad! This - GOOD!
Step 30 - TRY to put frustrations aside and use the program

That installer REALLY needs some work.

And if you are going to have a Windows program, be as kind as to have an actual uninstaller. NONE of the KDE programs installed are listed in (Add/Remove)Programs(and Features). No uninstallers in the start menu either. I realise a lot of vocal FOSS supporters don't like Windows, but please - if you're going to advocate FOSS, at least make it live up to the LOW standards of Windows software (the non-malicious part of that group).