RE: Is linex better than Windows? was Re: JFW keymap like orca keymap?
- From: "Chris Hofstader" <chris.hofstader@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:33:11 -0400
The amazing thing about MS Vista released in 2007 is that it is considered
so bad by some people that they are, for the first time ever, taking a hard
look at GNU/Linux and Macintosh - both pretty much based on UNIX clone
(Linux and BSD) kernels, technology that K&R rolled out back in the 1970s.
Has Vista really set the state of desktop technology back 30 years <laugh>?
I am actually one of the people on this list who does have a reasonably
decent experience with Vista. My RSI issues have been documented for a very
long time and Vista's built-in speech recognition is as good as or better
than recent versions of Dragon. JAWS works poorly with Vista speech
recognition but System Access does a great job, I haven't tried Window-Eyes
yet.
So, on my Vista box, when running JAWS (not so good with the speech
recognition stuff but, when using the scripts developed by this gang really
good in VS) I can say the first couple of letters of a bit of code and then
let Intellisense handle the rest. This cuts down enormously on the wear and
tear on my hands and let's me work for longer periods at a time.
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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephen S.
Disbrow
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:38 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Is linex better than Windows? was Re: JFW keymap like orca
keymap?
Hi,
The only reason I'd like to see linux come out on top is that windows
has controlled the market for so long, and is a bloattted OS that doesn't
do anything to further OS technology. And with Open Source the linux Screen
Readers an OS will continue to improve. While my personal feeling is that if
Windows didn't run with screen readers I would have been out of a job years
ago. I'm still a fan of the UNIX like OS, although I may be a little
prejudice because I worked for AT&T a in UNIX/C environments for 20 years.
Although I thank windows and JFW for keeping a career alive. I think windows
makes a nice platform for sshing or telneting to a UNIX like box of almost
any flavor.
Steve D.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: Is linex better than Windows? was Re: JFW keymap like orca
keymap?
> From: "Daniel Dalton" <d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Yes, but for a sited person they can just use a gui quite easily... Its
>> not that hard to use, but yes maybe a little more complicated than
>> windows.
>
> But unfortunately we are not sighted. And if something is more
> complicated... is it something good?
>
>>> If Ms keeps its policies as it is, there will huge merge from Windows to
>>> Linux in next five years. This is what I feel.
>>
>> I would hope so.
>
> If you hope so, this means that we can't believe anything you say because
> you are biased.
> I don't care if Linux or Windows will be better after who knows how many
> years.
> If Linux will become better as you hope, I will start using Linux. If
> Windows will be better, I will continue to use Windows. It is simple.
>
> Why should I want a certain OS to be better? They are not my own systems,
> so I don't anything to earn if one or another is better.
>
> Octavian
>
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