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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

by 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.