Comments by "Matthew Nirenberg" (@matthewnirenberg) on "Best Alternatives to Woke Software" video.

  1. The problem is latex takes forever to create a document, unlike using an office suite. This is why outside of very niche fields, latex hasn't and will never take off. Yes I know how to use latex and I spend most of my time looking at "cheat sheets" to list equations and to create tables, its powerful, but painful to work with. Presentations - done properly they require animations and should automatically advance whilst showing the presenter their slide notes on a separate screen - that requires something like Impress or PowerPoint, PDF files don't support animation and don't cut it in the real world (outside of uni), vim - you've got to be joking, it has no place in ANY presentation in the real world. The easiest solution is to use latex where strict formatting is required (writing research papers) and to just use LibreOffice for everything else, disable telemetry and don't donate to those wokies. Same thing with Firefox (disable the telemetry and don't donate). The biggest mistake ANYONE can make is to use anything built on Chromium (Chrome) - its a security nightmare and has zero genuine benefits over browsers built on the architectures used in Firefox. One other point on the time to get stuff done thing: Its like idiots trying to push C# for everything when you can write the identical code in VB in 1/10 the time (time is money), and the code executes at the same speed as it compiles to the same CLR. The big push to ditch VB was to make programming seem complicated and special to justify govts introducing professional registration systems so they could force "programming professionals" to create backdoors in software or face de-registration and subsequent loss of their job. VB made programming accessible and let many people write their own software quickly and easily, that took the money and power from the govts and big corporations. VB code is very easy to read and debug, C# on the other hand can be painful to debug (especially in large solutions (30+ projects)) as you spend more time trying to keep track of line endings and that brackets are correctly placed - all time wasting that VB avoids entirely. Yes I know both C# and VB fluently - I only use C# when there's something that can't be done in any other language due to MicroSh1t artificially limiting VB by removing some advanced functionality as part of their attempt to try to abolish it.
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  2.  @tomasruzicka9835  Your missing the point that when you're employed in a company, you have to do things how they require. Presentations must be presentations. Spreadsheets must be spreadsheets. Spreadsheets have been fully compatible going as far back as Lotus 1-2-3 in the 1980's, LibreOffice isn't going anywhere, nor is its parent, OpenOffice. That means the files can always be read. Sure, by all means use SQL for giant datasets and where the data is for research. As for your other suggestions on storing data - you're talking from a solely research / scientific point. That's not how ANY company handles their "office" data - we're not talking about anything "scientific". 99% of companies don't even know what GNU Octave, SQL, or LaTeX is, nor do 90% of people. Only idiots use "cloud" and "SaaS", smart people use local running software that doesn't need internet and doesn't expire.
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