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Linux user since 2009, stayed with Fedora ever since (and I like it!).
Interested in Open Source Way of doing things, sharing ideas and solutions. Focus on human aspects rather than bits & bytes. Favour nifty tools like markdown, newsbeuter and grep.
Learned the command line through breaking my system and annoying my house mates -- but also used CLI to get it running again ;-)
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these are really great and I certainly will try Impress, Hovercraft and Strut.
nowadays your audience wants a flashy presentation -- sometimes I even wonder if they care more about your Prezi than the things you say, but that's a matter of having the right content. for me the more tech comes to the presentation the more likely it will fail on the platform I'll have to work on professionally. cloud based? with poor wifi you'll have to find something to tell without the pictures you prepared. even the corporate 'ppt' sometimes fails because of different versions.
therefore I always carry my presentation in pdf, together with an installed version of impress!ve. this wonderful piece of software saves your day and only needs the bare minimum. besides there are some nifty tricks to emphasize text or use a flashlight like mouse pointer. impress!ve is avaliable from most Linux repos, but is also ported to Windows and portable version on flash drive in case your surroundings are different.
and at the end you simply hand over the pdf for after reading.
no offence to more appealing presentation software, but maybe impress!ve can be an option to use and save your bits.
[http://impressive.sourceforge.net/]
A lot of discussion is about what distro we use. But does it really matter? Basically 'yum' and 'apt', RPM and deb share not only three character names but also a lot of alike commands.
The distro-discussion can be confusing for newcomers. Even the 'car analogy' hardly solves this. The question is where the real diference lies, especially for newcomers. And there is a huge potential newbies with XP ending and Linux as a worthy alternative for existing hardware. And as a by-effect Linux helps to reduce e-waste.
For me the essence in 'What Linux do you use' is in the Desktop Environment. Is it graphical eye candy with Gnome3, Cinnamon, Enlightenment or KDE, the basic XFCE or LXDE, or geekier Openbox, awesome or Ratpoison -- the list is far from complete. Excuse me mixing up environments and window managers, but in my line of discussion here the difference is unimportant.
Now the average newcomer is a strange being. They easily switched from an XP desktop to Apple, iOS or Android, but are afraid to leave their windows. 'In Linux you have to master typed commands' is often heared. Yes you can use Linux from the shell, but there is a lot more to choose from! Most Linuxes have a basic graphical installer and the most important choice a newcomer has to make is which Desktop Environment she/he wants to use. Should it be XP-ish to start with or do you dare to try something of Today's Future like KDE Plasma. Wait! Why not try both on the same computer and switch between sessions! With Linux you can! Even on a five year old box.
All user experience lies in the Desktop Environment and not so much in RPM/deb differences. And that also is true for hard core Linuxers...