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
I would never give in personally. Id rather lose support fully than use Windows. Accessibility wise, I can do anything on Linux that Windows does plus a lot more. I have Windows 10 dual-booted eith Arch Linux just for my lady to use Silhouette software even though I showed her my better functioning Inkscape alternstive on Linux. In button press I can theme my entire desktop(gtk, firefox, xresources, etc) thanks to scripts and aliases. Microsoft’s invasion can’t simply be ripped out of Windows and the risk of viruses is way higher. If anyone ever says they’re switching from Linux to Windows; They know nothing about security and privacy. Using open-source is what will bring support for more trash Windows software. The wise thing to do would be to look for support on that software, contribute and recommend Linux to everyone that talks computers. The more userbase the more support will come around
I actually had a discussion with a blind person on XMPP the other day, and they were using a terminal based XMPP client on Linux because that worked better with their input method.
I would never give in personally. Id rather lose support fully than use Windows. Accessibility wise, I can do anything on Linux that Windows does plus a lot more. I have Windows 10 dual-booted eith Arch Linux just for my lady to use Silhouette software even though I showed her my better functioning Inkscape alternstive on Linux. In button press I can theme my entire desktop(gtk, firefox, xresources, etc) thanks to scripts and aliases. Microsoft’s invasion can’t simply be ripped out of Windows and the risk of viruses is way higher. If anyone ever says they’re switching from Linux to Windows; They know nothing about security and privacy. Using open-source is what will bring support for more trash Windows software. The wise thing to do would be to look for support on that software, contribute and recommend Linux to everyone that talks computers. The more userbase the more support will come around
are you a blind person? the person from the post is blind. That changes the perspective.
I actually had a discussion with a blind person on XMPP the other day, and they were using a terminal based XMPP client on Linux because that worked better with their input method.
I think this is beside the point, which is the frustration pertaining the severe lack of accessibility.