I found printing to a PDF file useful occasionally useful under Windows. Neat to have a way to do it in Ubuntu: 5 steps to create a PDF printer (print to PDF) in Ubuntu
This article lists some of the things I can do in Linux that I can’t do on Windows. Nice article.
Apparently it’s Ubuntu day for me. Wondering if you can switch to Linux? Here’s a nice article on how to do so. Published in Maximum PC magazine, it’s clear and current with Feisty Fawn, released just less than a month ago. Good stuff.
I need to get pictures of screens for reporting problems. I don’t usually want to take the full screen or even a window - I want the smallest section that will show the problem. Using Ubuntu, I wasn’t able to find anything that would do it as easily as I would like. I’m guessing with some certainty that I could have rigged The Gimp or something to capture the screen but then I would have to work at reducing the size, etc. In Linux.com | How to choose the right screenshot program there was a reference to Ksnapshot. It installed with just one file, though it referenced khelpcenter as suggested. With a bit of clicking, I found that the “region” mode was what I wanted. It works nicely with Gnome-based Ubuntu.