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Who uses, recommends or left Beamer, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Who disliked it

Statistician and software developer; chief scientist at RStudio/Posit and creator of the tidyverse of R packages.
disliked

I present from Keynote and loathe Beamer.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: the tools behind his R and data-analysis work.

2013-10-22·usesthis.com ↗

Computer science professor and author of The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D.
disliked

I used to use LaTeX plus beamer, but this setup makes the right things hard (capturing and conveying the essence of an idea visually) and the wrong things easy (flagellating the audience with unparseable mathematics).

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: a setup built to make the right things easy and the wrong things hard.

2012-01-06·usesthis.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.