desktop-publishing

Is LaTeX worth learning today?

I know that LaTeX is big in the world of academia, and was probably a big name in desktop publishing before the glory days of WordPerfect and Microsoft Office but as a Windows user that is interested in the power of LaTeX and the general smoothness of a LaTeX generated page is it really worth learning? In a couple of months I'll be star...

Get started with Latex on Linux

Impressed by is-latex-worth-learning-today, and many how-to's on Windows, How do you have someone started with LaTeX on Linux. How do you generate a pdf out of it and give up the OOO Word processer. Update: Thanks to all the suggestions given in here. I was able to create an awesome ppt using the Beamer class: http://github.com/beco...