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I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 1 – Built for Control, But Not for People — fireborn (fireborn.mataroa.blog)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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or, the exhaustion of a blind user

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[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

You just said the thing in different words. For the blind, Linux is Orca, just as Windows is JAWS. The only OS that makes the blind and disabled community first-class citizens is Mac, and I say that bring someone who's strongly disliked Apple since around the era of the 2E.

Windows provides support and APIs that are established and work reasonably. Linux might, but it's next to impossible to figure it out and keep it stable.

So when you say "Step back from Orca", you actually mean, "buy a Mac and curse the name of Linux."

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Fireborn later endorsed the BT Speak PDA which runs a custom open source OS with the Linux kernel

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 19 hours ago

Unfortunately, the Linux kernel and the common use of "Linux" in terms of an OS aren't always the same. The kernel is important, but it's about making sure that Arch, Ubuntu, Kali, Mint, Zorin, Fedora Core, etc. have those features - and to 99% of the computing public, all of those are Linux.

So if that PDA solves the problem, figure out how, and how to use that to make the UX better for the blind across the whole ecosystem.