A little shocked at how nice linux on the laptop has become. Half my steam library works ootb, let alone wifi suspend bt etc. No hair shirt!
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Admittedly I did have to patch DSDT (new release hardware uses fancy suspend, not the usual S3) but 10 years ago a nice system was a FT job
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I am also horrified that I’ve been a GNU/Linux user for over ten years (I was that awful person writing all my humanities essays in TeX)
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Replying to @plaidfinch
It’s weird, I don’t know how I ended up doing that, I didn’t get into computing until much later
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I think in my senior year of high school, my AP Physics teacher mentioned LaTeX and I thought it was cool so I started doing my lab reports in it. Then I obnoxiously typeset all my undergrad philosophy papers in, like, ugh, Hoefler Text.
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I would always get remarks from professors about how good my papers looked, and questions about how I did it. Was just Computer Modern, hah
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I think it's possible I got a small grade boost from the fact that LaTeX looks Authoritative
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Absolutely and same, especially when printed (we had to print all papers back then, weird)
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Not that I'd say this out loud, or anywhere public like the Internet, but it's amazing how submissions which are obviously LaTeX often turn out to be the best...
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A word doc is a decent signal of crankery on vixra in that almost all cranks use word but not all word docs are written by cranks.
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If sent as a .docx, certainly. But I'm not expecting undergrads to be familiar with LaTeX quite yet...
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