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> "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 W

by rg111 4y ago

> "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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34013195

einpoklum 4y ago
> 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-2022/speaker/WHDWTF/ 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/ https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/ ... then maybe in a couple of years you could ditch PowerPoint and make your 99.9% into 100%.
- rg111 4y ago
  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.
  - einpoklum 4y ago
    > 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 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.
    - rg111 4y ago
      > "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.

by rg111 4y ago

einpoklum 4y ago

> 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-2022/speaker/WHDWTF/ 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/ https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/ ... then maybe in a couple of years you could ditch PowerPoint and make your 99.9% into 100%.

rg111 4y ago
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.
- einpoklum 4y ago
  > 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 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.
  - rg111 4y ago
    > "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.