Another handy thing with optical drives is that one may hear if a drive is being used. As handy as u s b drives are, they are silent. > On Jun 25, 2020, at 7:15 AM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I certainly wasn't suggesting you aren't entitled to your preferences. I > was simply pointing out the rest of the world has left optical media in > the dust. Good luck finding optical drives as default equipment anywhere > in today's mainstream kartplace. you might want them, but most of the > rest of us have moved on. > > PS: What's so hard about burning an iso to disk? I might expect that > kind of complaint on a Windows or Mac list, but I don't get that > complaint here on a Linux list. What's so hard about: > > wodim source-file.iso destination.device.designator > > > How much easier can life be? > > Best, > > Janina > > > > Linux for blind general discussion writes: >> And even if I was comfortable writing ISOs to thumbdrives(I'm not, and >> it's not like I'm likely to run out of DVD+R anytime soon so there's >> little incentive to learn when I've got a bash script that automates >> the process of burning a disc), I also prefer to buy physical media >> whenever possible and make my own rips, especially since most legal >> download avenues are either using mp3 like it's the 90s or have their >> files DRM'd to hell and back and only compatible with the brands of >> device they approve of, so not having to hook up an external drive >> every time I buy a new album would be nice. >> >> Still, when I actually get around to replacing this ancient HP of >> mine, I want to buy a machine who's boot sequence is friendly to doing >> clean installs and running Live environments out of the box and I have >> to go out of my way to make booting from removable media harder, not >> one where it boots from the hard drive all the time and I have to go >> out of my way to enable bootting from other media. Sadly, I get the >> impression the latter is industry standard these days. >> >> And for what it's worth, my desktop prior to my current HP was one of >> System76's Celeron-based towers... I think it was like vintage 07 or >> 08 and succumbed to bulging capacitors somewhere around 12 or 13... my >> HP is about twice the age that System 76 machine was when it died, but >> my experience is also that HP's are some of the longest lasting >> machines on the market(My family's first XP machine was an HP that >> lasted over a decade in a house with multiple smokers, mold and mildew >> issues, and being kept in a family room with a leaky ceiling(it had to >> be moved several times thanks to being rained on). The HP I currently >> have was a gift my state's Division of Services for the Blind, and HP >> is easily my favorite of the major PC brands, but my one past >> experience with System 76 was a good one and I wouldn't mind buying >> one of their machines if I had the money to spare. >> >> As for SBL, I'm not sure it's actually maintained. At least, I don't >> think the version number of what ships with Knoppix has changed in >> years. Fortunately, things don't change much in the console, so it's >> enough that a mature text-mode screen reader continues to work and be >> available unlike how Orca has to play whack-a-mole with every little >> quirk added with each new version of Chromium, Firefox, and >> Thunderbird(or at least, it seems like the vast majority of bug >> reports on the Orca mailing list are due to something that changed in >> one of those three). >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Blinux-list mailing list >> Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > -- > > Janina Sajka > https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka > > Linux Foundation Fellow > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list