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fruechtchen@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 4 years ago

reason for moving back to windows: better accessibility support

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reason for moving back to windows: better accessibility support

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fruechtchen@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 4 years ago
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Devin Prater (@devinprater@dragonscave.space)
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Boosts appreciated. I'm close to moving back to Windows. I can't tell you how frustrating it is to hold oneself back, deny oneself better and easier accessibility in the name of open source, when many open source developers don't give a crap about accessibility, and/or don't educate themselves on it. KDE connect, GSConnect, all were inaccessible for one reason or another, not the least because of Gnome-shell's terrible accessibility issues. That was just the last straw. With the only thing holding me to Linux being Emacs+Emacspeak, I think its time to quit Linux and just use what actually works. It's interesting how being "free" just means being under the power and whim of other people, a mass of developers who have no insentive for accessibility, rather than a cohesive company who does. This is serious, and I want every developer to understand this, understand my deep frustration with FOSS. #FOSS #Linux #KDE #a11y #accessibility #Windows #comunism #capitalism #software #developers
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    I see their point. Except that Microsoft is anything but cohesive. Everybody lives with their decisions and tradeoffs.

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