>have to write an academic paper >need to use LaTeX >lecturer said "use online editors" >gonna install it then >it runs better on Linux they say >no former experience with Linux >friend says "install Gentoo" >fall for the meme >13 hours go by >no DE, coz Plasma is trash >4 days go by >now I'm a footfag >installed Latex and editor successfully >Mendeley and MikTeX are broken >gonna ask for help on Gentoo forums >they say "that shouldn't have happened" >they say "use *insert open source alternative here* instead >can't swap software coz three years of work made on mendeley >2 days of troubleshooting go by >decide to install fedora >2 hours go by >everything works perfectly >still a footfag though
After all of this I discovered that I'm not autistic enough to use Gentoo.
>>lecturer said "use online editors" >>it runs better on Linux they say pick one. is not hat you aren't autist, the problem is you are retarded
Nicholas Campbell
why didn't you just listen to your instructor?
David Bennett
Don't get it, latex literally takes a minute to configure and you can get vim plugins with preview and auto compile and all that fun stuff Also why do you install online editors, just use it online wtf
Thomas Martin
OP here I know I'm retarded and I didn't go for online editors. Too boring.
Asher Johnson
Why would you use win-only miktex instead of texlive? The distribution literally makes no differenece
Ayden Watson
why the fuck does the lecturer care what you use to you write your papers?
Brayden James
In this case
> be clever > install any easy distro > install texlive > install any editor, such as texstudio > that's it
Josiah Russell
I can absolutely understand that (as a chemEng student).
It looks absolutely professional while being an open format to split formatting and content while being able to do everything directly in latex.
Ryder Ortiz
troff does all that. Again why would the professor care if I used troff over latex?
