re: Intel

i have not been able to properly set things up on nix. i need oneapi Blender support, SYCL etc. unfortunately, i can’t spend several days trying figure it out on my own.

re: kwin

again, my experience was mixed. some apps sort of worked out of the box, others had issues with detecting pressure sensitivity or palm rejection.

re: wsl

I don’t need a container. when on Nix, i use devshells. what i was saying is that all the linux tools i ever need are easily available on windows.

re: ppt

again, i tried. it sort of works for older versions. but even then once i started importing media, it would crash. when I’m traveling and need to show slides, i simply can’t afford to just debug all night why the video won’t show properly.

for the record: i do have a linux laptop (fw16, with nixos), i just need to keep another windows one for very specific tasks.

i use neither animations nor transitions. but i do extensively use movies (which have a horrible support in Impress), and i use lots of equations (which you can enable using third-party plugins in Impress, but working with them is very difficult).

i’ve been bitten twice when i’ve been traveling on a conference and had to quickly put up slides in Impress, and ended up not being able to do what i wanted because of all of its limitations. i ended up using reveal.js, but that also has its own drawbacks, e.g., the lack of UI, which i can use to quickly fine-tune arrows, text positions etc.

I can give you reasons I have for not installing Linux on one of my laptops:

• Intel graphics support, or the absence of it;

• decent touchscreen support (Windows Ink);

• WSL which I use with NixOS, and it does simplify most of my dev needs;

• unfortunately, Adobe apps which I still heavily rely on (I’d wish I had an alternative),

• PowerPoint (again, I’d wish I had an alternative).

If you want to comment: "oh but have you tried Affinity, Pixie, Only Office, Libre Impress, reveal.js, {enter your fav presentation/photo editing tool} – yes I have, and no, unfortunately, it’s not even close. Also, to be clear, I’ve never paid, and never will for the Windows/Adobe products.

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.”