Re: Is linex better than Windows? was Re: JFW keymap like orca keymap?
- From: Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:20:53 +1000 (EST)
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Mike Reiser wrote:
I haven't fully switched to linux because I want to use the gui, not the
command line. I'm not a programmer and I don't want to ed configuration
files jjust to change options. I just want everything to work. We still
Its not that hard, and you don't need to be a programmer... If you just
use the gui you won't get half the power the CLI gives you...
can't do administration tasks in gnome such as updating the system like you
can with windows update. I should be able to at least do that. The only way
one can do this currently is creating some long config file. If you want to
No its actually quite easy in a cli...
aptitude?
get a new computer user into linux that would be a daunting thing for them.
Well maybe, but I don't think so exactly.
They would just be learning something different to windows...
They say that linux will become an alternative desktop for blind people, it's
going to have to get allot easier to work with before people will swith from
windows. Just my two cents.
Yes, but people are already switching and for the more basic users it may
take longer, but gnome isn't hard to use.
There are just some bugs in orca still, but they are getting fixed...
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