I would not really recommend LaTeX or any of those other programs just for writing student papers. LaTeX is for academic papers and it’s pretty cumbersome and technical to learn, it would be very very extra to use it for writing just like your random freshman comp paper. I’m not sure why that list doesn’t have LibreOffice or OpenOffice or whatever.
We’re not all first-year undergrads. Writing your PhD thesis? Sure, have a look at LaTeX. Also, the list has both of those office suites at the top. It’s a long list, but sometimes that is good when you are looking for alternatives.
On the other hand, starting to learn latex through some smaller paper might prepare you for when you actually would need the features it brings during a thesis or something similar. Also nowadays with overleaf I do find that it is not all too difficult to get started with latex. Still it remains a bit of a complex beast to master.
I would not really recommend LaTeX or any of those other programs just for writing student papers. LaTeX is for academic papers and it’s pretty cumbersome and technical to learn, it would be very very extra to use it for writing just like your random freshman comp paper. I’m not sure why that list doesn’t have LibreOffice or OpenOffice or whatever.
We’re not all first-year undergrads. Writing your PhD thesis? Sure, have a look at LaTeX. Also, the list has both of those office suites at the top. It’s a long list, but sometimes that is good when you are looking for alternatives.
On the other hand, starting to learn latex through some smaller paper might prepare you for when you actually would need the features it brings during a thesis or something similar. Also nowadays with overleaf I do find that it is not all too difficult to get started with latex. Still it remains a bit of a complex beast to master.
LibreOffice is right at the top. Not sure why OpenOffice is on there.
You should try out Typst. It’s a pretty new alternative to LaTEX and easier to learn IMO