well... it kind of works offline. all the media (at least he videos) are still kept on the cloud. with latex -- there are literally free online latex services like overleaf which can also sync with a github for offline use. so i'd say latex, despite its heavy install process, is kinda industry standard at this point. besides, you actually don't need the whole 8GB of latex to get started on beamer. you can probably get away with as-required installation, which essentially installs only the packages that you explicitly specify in your document. yes, configuring it might indeed be a bit of a headache at first, but with tools like latexmk etc, it's actually not too bad. and i'd be willing to spend the time to actually tailor the workflow if it had a decent-enough UI and support for videos.
never tried Xaringan, but from the look of it it's yet another markdown framework. which is splendid, but no UI is a huge dealbreaker for me. otherwise i'm happy to write my own parsing engine or just make presentations in pure html/css/js.
i used typst for papers. their "interpretation" of latex is pretty annoying. they basically tried to reinvent it, and it looks counter intuitive (maybe one could get used to it). otherwise, i don't see how its different from a regular old beamer with no UI, poor support for videos etc.
i did use InDesign a while ago, although not for presentation purposes. the UI is kinda similar to the illustrator, but more tailored to publishing (booklets/posters/books, etc.). I'd imagine making latex (or videos) work in it would be a headache though.
Yeah, I believe these were one the first retinas with 200+ ppi. Honestly, for a person who spends most of the time staring at a code or a text, hidpi is basically a necessity for me at this point. So the fact that slack or vscode had such a bad support for fractional scaling is a huge deal for me. (Wayland fixes this in some instances as I mentioned)
At first it was the former, then the latter. )
Well in that sense Macs aren’t too different from any other laptop. HDMI worked just fine. I was also trying to connect a USB-C monitor through an HDMI adapter, which didn’t quite work, but I think that might be the case with other laptops too (it’s probably a driver issue). From the desktop experience point of view, KDE handles multi monitor flawlessly, can’t think of any complaints.
Like the other reply suggests: look up which drivers you got (mainly the wlan, bluetooth and the camera), and see if WL or facetimehd support those. It wasn’t that much of a pain with the drivers though. Also, find out whether you have the “over the internet recovery”. If not, I would probably avoid deleting the recovery partition, and opt for a dual boot (or manual partitioning).
Never actually tried it for presentations. I bet they might have some sort of markdown-parser engine, but again, it will suffer from all the drawbacks of other markdown engines.