![]() In the long run, if someone is going to use LaTeX a lot, there are very sound reasons to move away from such systems to something more controllable. Some might have other personal views (for instance preferring to use a particular editor). But if your students are not handling sensitive personal data, or commercial or government secrets, and do not have rooted objections to the use of anything in the cloud, those do not seem to be deal killers. confidentiality concerns) in which they would not be appropriate. There are obviously more principled reasons why people might refuse to use cloud-based systems and circumstances (e.g. But (1) is unlikely to bite new users, mostly, and (2) can be avoided by encouraging people to use Standard templates. To my mind the main practical downsides are (1) occasionally the cloud-based systems lag behind bleeding edge TeX development (but that is unlikely to be a problem for most users) and (2) Overleaf seems to encourage the use of non-standard "templates", some of which are of dubious quality or utility, and which may not be portable. There are good reasons for experienced users to prefer to maintain a local system and their are occasional disadvantages to being in the cloud: but as a way to get going quickly without installing anything, it may have much to say for it. It's "real LaTeX" and mostly any document that compiles there will compile on other systems in the same way. It offers a straightforward LaTeX compiler and editor, with nothing to install, and it works pretty intuitively.
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