I'm Gauwain, hailing from Holland.
At some point I was so fed up with WYSIWYG programs. I started off with MS Office (drama), took on OOo, which soon was replaced by GoogleDocs. GD turned out to be too poor in features and I came back in OOo, which didn't bring me what I wanted from a texteditor.
A friend suggested LaTeX. So far I'm really impressed. There is a couple of points that make me

Everything I have to hand in (assignments, theses, papers, manuscripts, letters) goes in .pdf, through LaTeX. I love how it looks. I love the fact that with one blink you can see that a document is made up in LaTeX.
Splendid. I wanna learn more!
See ya around,
Gauwain