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It's been around ten years that my desktop barely changed except a few pixels thanks to dwm and dmenu. I am a bit exaggerating but I love the stability that minimalism brings. If only they could make a pdf viewer...

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zathura is close enough — it's very minimalistic and supports everything under the sun: pdf, djvu, comics, epub...

https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/

Are you aware of Sioyek[0]? It's a PDF viewer with a fairly minimal UI and a focus on keyboard interaction.

[0]: https://sioyek.info

Thanks, I love finding little nuggets like this here.

SumatraPDF: https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader

No frills, super fast and small. Been using it on Windows for years.

I recently downloaded SumatraPDF to open a PDF on Windows XP. Glad they still host a release that works on it. :)

Need wine (or something stronger) to run it on Linux.

Eh, it vendors an old version of mupdf. Very bad idea, considering that it's a C program/library handling a notoriously complex format often shared on the Internet.

Personally, I just use mupdf (which I sandbox through bubblewrap).

Have any issues with mupdf? I find it suckless.

That's android only. He's talking about desktop.

I like it too though.

To the currently dead sibling comment by kjrfghslkdjfl (on the off chance they get to see this): mupdf is extremely cross platform. I felt that should have at least been mentioned before your comment reached being dead over that misunderstanding.

That's, uh, not why the comment is dead.

Seconding this. It's my default choice for many file formats, not just pdf. However it doesn't support jpegxl so in those cases I use Okular (very much not minimal but quite usable).

Yes okular is just brilliant for PDFs i love okular

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