Re: Is linex better than Windows? was Re: JFW keymap like orca keymap?

  • From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:36:03 +0300

I think you are confusing Linux with the Linux distributions.
Linux OS is just the OS, just the kernel, while the distributions use to add different programs to it.

Some of them are better accessible and some are not.

I don't like to spend my life installing and testing many Linux distributions and learning about the difference among them, and I don't like to need to use yum on one of them or rpm, and .deb or apt-get under others, because I got other jobs to do.

I understand that for students learning is the main occupation, but I am not a student anymore...

Octavian

----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Dalton" <d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: Is linex better than Windows? was Re: JFW keymap like orca keymap?


On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Octavian Rasnita wrote:

Oh yes, I don't even consider Vista for the moment, just as I was still using Windows 2000 a long time after XP appeared. Each time a new OS appears, the accessibility and improvements for the blind is left behind, and it takes some time until the companies that make screen readers adapt their software to work well with it, with the new drivers and apps. So that's why I don't think it is a good idea to jump and use the latest systems. They are ok only for those who have enough time to try and like to test what's new, but not for those who use the computers just to do their job.

Well, linux is different usually, since its open source accessibility isn't a problem in new versions...
Usually better actually.

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