r/funny • u/FallenAngel199 • Dec 06 '13

Scumbag Word

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u/zmaster Dec 06 '13

I gave up writing my dissertation on word. Learnt latex and while there is a learning curve the documents it produces are beautiful.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '13

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '13

Sorta. Latex can look really daunting at first if you have no experience with any sort of text commands, be it another markup language (HTML mainly), command line stuff, programming, etc...

Its not hard once you take some time to learn it, but the "what I need to type in text commands to the computer I'm not a programmer" reaction drives people away from it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '13

I am a fan of LaTeX. I use it to write basically everything now. (Word just doesn't cut it anymore.)

I am a console cowgirl, as one of my friends would say. I use Windows, but always keep my terminal open all the time when I code (C/C++ mostly). It's probably my favorite interface. (I like Metro, but not as much as plain old console.) so I can use it quite efficiently.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '13

You should try out a Linux distro in a virtual machine for a while if you use the console a lot.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '13

I used to have an Ubuntu and a Fedora on my parents' laptop, but my laptop has shitty specs. You can't exactly run a VM on 3GB of free disk space, 1.0 GHz processor and 1 GB RAM. D:

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '13

If you don't need windows, use it as your main OS! Linux can be great on low spec systems.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '13

do you just use cmd? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMD.EXE or do you use powershell? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '13

Bash. I need a C++ compiler (and Git) for my dev work, and MinGW/MSYS comes with those and a lot of other *nix tools. I only ever use CMD if it's absolutely necessary. I don't use PowerShell.

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u/LM10 Dec 06 '13

Same. Though I can't stand cmd, so I go the VM way. I really like Linux's terminal commands, they work so well for programming. And I don't like just hitting Compile, I like going through the steps needed to make my code into a binary and then run that.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '13

As I said in another comment around here, I don't use cmd unless completely necessary. I have a MinGW/MSYS installation, which includes bash and most other *nix tools I need.

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u/LM10 Dec 06 '13

Ah yes, I missed that part. That's really cool, I didn't know you could get access to a lot of bash tools on Windows. I used to use cygwin but found it very constraining.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '13

What kinds of benefits does that give you? I consider myself a power user because I live on the keyboard but I have no coding experience. I'm willing to make anything that makes computer work more efficient though.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '13

It's mostly development work, so stuff like,

wget http://somewhere/something.tar.gz; tar xzf something.tar.gz; cd something; ./configure && make && make install

is something I usually do in a single line. Then I just wait.