[DiogenesKynikos]

LaTeX is great, but God forbid you want to move a figure up a centimeter on the page.

That'll cost you an hour of reading through StackExchange threads, and you'll probably come up empty.

[generationP]

Just don't use figure when you don't want them to float, but just use \includegraphics or whatever environment you're using? Floating figures are a pain in the ass in any system, as their positioning relies on the rest of the text already being formatted but simultaneously mess with that same formatting.

[mattkrause]

It is not exactly a picnic in Word either though....