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I've been using the latex container for vs code lately which works pretty well. Admittedly you risk spending time on setting that up instead of just doing it natively.
One of the issues I ran into was that installing fonts on the container wasn't entirely straight forward. Classic "this is so much simpler but hold on let me deal with these weird new problems I otherwise wouldn't have". -
@ltlian I've worked with both LaTeX and ConTeXt before, so I think I should be able to handle most issues.
I am planning to go overkill with the Linux setup though.
Custom Artix install, btrfs, maybe encrypt the entire disk/partitions.
Write custom dotfiles for all of my stuff/import them from my GitHub and so on. -
@LotsOfCaffeine
That's only slightly above medium overboard.
Void-musl + ZFS with native encryption would be way more overboard. -
@jespersh @alexbrooklyn I considered markdown, or Rmarkdown, but I'm writing an academic document and I don't have that much time, so idk if the time investment is worth it.
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@LotsOfCaffeine there's a readily available docker image for it that just asks for a documentation folder
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@alexbrooklyn I'm not too worried about setting up the environment, but rather learning how to format and write the things I need in the way I need them to look.
For TeX I alread know, and have templates
Another dev on my team just got a new machine. Before he came in today I made two separate USB installers and ...
My boss gave me a lab pc (not controlled by the internal IT) so I can put whatever OS I want on there. I'm planning to also write certain documents with something like LaTeX on it.
When he gave it to me, he said “but don't goo too overboard with it, I know much time you can sink into Linux and TeX”
Me, actually planning to go fully overboard in every aspect: “haha yeah don't worry I'll just install Ubuntu or something”
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