i really apologize if the use of that word was perceived as offensive, that was obviously not my intent. i’m usually quite straightforward in picking words (i come from a completely different culture, where sexual assaults are extremely uncommon).

PS. for the context of others reading this comment, the original title of this post was: “nmtui that does not rape your eyes.”

for comparison, here’s the default

from someone’s … posterior? … latter end? … tuchus? arse is a bit more descriptive, eh?

How much do you think I earn to afford paying for Office or Adobe? :) i’ve never paid for any of those, even though I’ve been using Adobe since CS5.

As for donating: i agree, for now i sometimes help in contributing to the codebase in a bit smaller apps i actually can fix things in.

I used WPS, it was worse than Libre from the usability, plus quite bloated with all sorts of stuff (luckily, I don’t have to pay for the Office, and will never actually do that willingly). Haven’t used the other two, however, will have a look, thanks!

Both GIMP and Krita are very nice and decent, just not powerful enough for many things I need photoshop for. Inkscape is actually much closer to Illustrator (not as powerful, but still), so that might be the only one with the “getting used to it” issue.

Actually, one other thing I should have mentioned, is that I also transited from using Premiere Pro to Kdenlive (and sometimes even Blender for very light video editing). Kdenlive is an amazing success story for KDE, hope that happens to Krita as well.

PS. The name GIMP sounds amazing! Love it, they should never change it )

A free-falling observer lives in a locally Minkowskian space-time, so feels no such thing. So I like my metric flat.

agree, yes, especially the ProtonDrive configured through rsync: i really need it to be reliable, since i often travel and absolutely need my documents synced automatically with my PC. even in the early versions of ProtonDrive windows/mac app, it was often not syncing, and i would find myself on the road need to download a few gigs worth of slides and pdfs.

totally understand it. it took me about a full day to setup everything the way i liked (i’m also quite picky when it comes to usability), but honestly the next time i do it, i can probably do it in a couple of hours, since i now know all the ins and outs.

arse!

like i mentioned above in the comment, i really meant to say OnlyOffice (but i also tried Libre, and a bunch of others)

I very much hope so too!!! i made myself to drift away from the Fusion 360 (they just took it a step further by moving a lot of stuff to the cloud) towards the FreeCad, and am enjoying its capabilities ever since. hope the same happens to GIMP. and it’s not about getting used to it after Photoshop, it just really lacks some of the basic functionality i absolutely need.

Out of curiosity, how did you piss before?

lying on my back like all normal people

Do Gentoo next, and good work!

was planning Nix to understand the whole reproducible build idea, but Gentoo is a good suggestion too! will try that

yep, but it’s a private repo.

Yes, i tried remark. I often use markdown-based solutions when i give a more code-centric presentation. But for other purposes, when I want to make annotations on the slide, put arrows in the right places, combine shapes to make a fast schematic etc, this just doesn’t cut. Sure, technically, it’s possible to do it with mermaid, etc, but it takes exponentially more time.

Agree, but like i said, all the media files are still saved to the cloud and viewed through YouTube.

Will definitely give it a try, although from the looks of it the project seems abandoned. The last commit was 5 years ago.

Sorry yes, i meant onlyoffice. Like i said, it’s indeed quite similar to power point, except for the weirdly looking video embedding. (And of course the fact that it’s free, although i’ve never paid for the powerpoint either :) )

i tried openoffice, and it’s actually quite decent! the video support is kinda clumsy, because it has no preview at all (the video is basically black unless you make a slideshow, and it also has black boundaries make it square, and you have to manually crop it every time). i also don’t quite like their pushiness about making an account with them and running things on the cloud. but otherwise looks pretty good. i mean the main advantage over powerpoint i guess is the ability to run on linux (and the fact they’re free, which is a huge kudo!)

well… it kind of works offline. all the media (at least he videos) are still kept on the cloud. with latex – there are literally free online latex services like overleaf which can also sync with a github for offline use. so i’d say latex, despite its heavy install process, is kinda industry standard at this point. besides, you actually don’t need the whole 8GB of latex to get started on beamer. you can probably get away with as-required installation, which essentially installs only the packages that you explicitly specify in your document. yes, configuring it might indeed be a bit of a headache at first, but with tools like latexmk etc, it’s actually not too bad. and i’d be willing to spend the time to actually tailor the workflow if it had a decent-enough UI and support for videos.

never tried Xaringan, but from the look of it it’s yet another markdown framework. which is splendid, but no UI is a huge dealbreaker for me. otherwise i’m happy to write my own parsing engine or just make presentations in pure html/css/js.

i used typst for papers. their “interpretation” of latex is pretty annoying. they basically tried to reinvent it, and it looks counter intuitive (maybe one could get used to it). otherwise, i don’t see how its different from a regular old beamer with no UI, poor support for videos etc.