Re:Ask HN: Have you considered switching from OS X to Linux?
by thex86 on Monday October 14, 2013 @02:19AM
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Use Beamer for presentations [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_(LaTeX)] and never look back!
Re:Ask HN: Have you considered switching from OS X to Linux?
by rtpg on Monday October 14, 2013 @02:29AM
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Do people really find using tex to make presentations worthwhile for things when it's not for academics? Maybe I'm just not good, but I take a lot less time to make something that looks nice with Powerpoint, especially when trying to touch things up (the feedback loop on WYSIWYG software should not be underestimated)/
Re:Ask HN: Have you considered switching from OS X to Linux?
by onazareth on Monday October 14, 2013 @03:59AM
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Can you actually make something nice with Powerpoint? If so, you should teach my coworkers. I will stick with LaTeX.
Re:Ask HN: Have you considered switching from OS X to Linux?
by happymellon on Monday October 14, 2013 @02:28AM
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I fixed that with Wine and a copy of Office 2007 I picked up on a Black Friday sale at Office Depot, which resolved any document compatibility issues I had. Libre Office maybe better these days but 6 years ago layout issues were rife.
Life is particularly better for the C and C++ programmer. Valgrind's primary platform is Linux. For many years Mac owners were stuck with a horribly out of date and malfunctioning GCC, and even now with clang there are problems (the clang in xcode 5.0 has some horrible miscompiling bugs which were reported months before release).
Is everything perfect in Linux? No. But overall I find it an improvement. The only app I miss is keynote, OpenOffice is a poor substitute.