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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.

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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.

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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.

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