Adobe is like planting an oak tree in your hard drive.
It hogs resources, nags you to update it, it remotely connects to servers without explicit permission, it surreptitiously modifies the registry to keep itself running and every single stinkin time you double click a pdf file it it brings your system to a screeching halt while it loads a landfill's worth of libraries and plugins that have already been loaded a zillion times in the same session.
And for what? To read a single page.
Thanks but no thanks.
I'm glad this came up. I had been using adobe because i assumed it was the best option. For what I do with it, however, it does just what you're describing there. When I use it, it's to print a form off quickly for a deal. I have certain forms I need that are bank specific, and most of them are available as PDF on the main interface program we use for the banks (
Dealertrack)
I save these forms and organize them in folders for each bank.....i have them on my desk top*, so instead of having to maintain an inventory of these forms in a drawer, i just print them as needed. adobe leaves itself open after the form is done printing, too.
* i recently found (i think this was another gem found on the cellar, btw) that you can create toolbars within the task bar. that's damn handy.