Re: [dev] Linux sucks!

From: Guilherme Lino <guih.lino_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:48:14 +0100

i beg to differ

beamer is a total crap!
total pain, light years away from the modern world

i would rather do it in html..


On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Peter John Hartman <
peterjohnhartman_AT_gmail.com> wrote:

> I beg to differ.
>
> beamer for my slideshows.
> ledpar/ledmac for critical editions. (http://www.djdekker.net/)
> latex for publications.
> perl for searches (stanford encyclopedia of philosophy)
> git for collaboration (buridanica.net)
> antiword to read student papers
>
> and i work in the HUMANITIES, baby.
>
> Peter
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:33:18PM +0100, Guilherme Lino wrote:
> > yeah but the true is that a linux desktop is almost useless for a normal
> > person
> >
> > i remember first time i used ubuntu. i started a openoffice presentation
> on
> > the 4th slide the system was already unusable. And wet back to windows,
> even
> > google docs was better for the job.
> >
> > of course latex is cool, vim, dwm, but no one out of the professional
> field
> > of computer sience have the time or patience to learn this unix
> philosophy..
> > --
> >
> >
> > Guilherme Lino
>
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>


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Guilherme Lino
Received on Sat Oct 29 2011 - 13:48:14 CEST

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