This is the main thing. Gas doesn’t need power.

Not too bad with LyX. Get templates and modify them. It is a learning curve but entirely doable.

Yeah I got through school and could work just fine now with Calc. I’m sure it breaks when you get fancy but not that many people get that fancy.

I swear typesetting your papers is worth half a grade point at least. Then once you find Zotero and realize it will automagically handle your citations and you have auto biblios and cites working in LyX…life changing, absolutely.

Some places are killing the web interface entirely and going app-only.