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Re:More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 Sta... by rg111 on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @02:48PM (#34165040)
> "Linux on laptops has been a tremendous pain in my experience. "

Using Linux ~99.9% of times at both work and personal use for the last five years. 0.1% is Windows, because PowerPoint.

Using Pop OS (NVIDIA) for the last 2.5 years, and Linux Mint before that.

I have near zero issues, and spent contiguous months and years without any Linux Evenings [0]. Had 3-4 Linux Evenings in these 5 years.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34013195

Re:More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 Sta... by einpoklum on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @03:26PM (#34165487)
> 0.1% is Windows, because PowerPoint.

I was about to say: "Why not just use LibreOffice Impress?" - but the truth is that it's still far away from qualifying as a Powerpoint replacement. LO Writer has really gotten its act together over the years, and now handles Word documents very well and is a worthy replacement - Impress not as much.

So, I urge you to spend a little time trying to open your PPT presentations in Impress, and if/when you see issues with it - complain about them! As an active LO user (https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference...) I feel the user base is not putting enough pressure on developers to put focus on Impress polish.

Also, donations help: https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/

... then maybe in a couple of years you could ditch PowerPoint and make your 99.9% into 100%.

Re:More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 Sta... by rg111 on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @03:49PM (#34165779)
I am fortunate enough to work at a place where I don't have to make more than bare minimum number of presentations. If I had to make a lot of them, then maybe I would have learned Impress up to a level. But as that isn’t the case, I stuck with PP. I only open PP at the last moment, and forget it after work is done.

I use PP at work and talks that I give occasionally (2-3 per year).

For other things, I just use Google Docs and Sheets. They are enough for my usecases.

As a challenge, last year, when I taught a class (as a volunteer)- I made all my slides with Impress. While it wasn’t painful, PP is miles better and smoother.

While there are many FOSS softwares where I regularly report issues, and donated, and even contributed to some, presentations is not that important to me to spend a lot of time at.

Re:More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 Sta... by einpoklum on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @04:47PM (#34166438)
> would have learned Impress up to a level.

Oh, Impress is basically the same as PowerPoint, the differences are not significant. Here's a 11-minute video exemplifying the experience of creating a simple presentation from scratch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDmEvjs4iBw

... frankly, I wouldn't even watch it, just pretend PowerPoint came out with a new version where they tweaked the UI a bit.

Re:More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 Sta... by rg111 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @12:30AM (#34169851)
> "As a challenge, last year, when I taught a class (as a volunteer)- I made all my slides with Impress."

You missed this bit?

I did use Impress to make slides for 7 classes (>100 slides).

I will go with PP for now.

And, yes, using computers since 6, having one for myself since 10- I need not really explicitly learn UIs of programs intended for non-tech mass users.