> it's not like LaTeX is hard to install or anything It took me the better part of a day to set up all the dependencies to properly compile the thesis template

> it's not like LaTeX is hard to install or anything It took me the better part of a day to set up all the dependencies to properly compile the thesis template my uni provides. Just the core and basic extensions are over a gigabyte to download, then I had to manually copy something from one folder to another, then run some obscure command to rebuild...something, then the version of biber didn't match the version of something else, but if I installer biber directly then it didn't match some other perl library, but I couldn't uninstall and replace that because it was required by some other perl program I have installed...