Initial Disclaimer: Ubuntu 5.10 was the first Linux Distro I used seriously, though I did play around with other distros prior to that. I believe it was around Ubuntu 6.06 or 6.10 that I switched to running Linux 24/7 instead of dual booting with Windows XP. While I've been visually impaired my whole life and blind in my right eye since infancy, I didn't go blind in my left eye until 2012, when I was 25, and by then, I had switched from Ubuntu to Debian and gone through most of the major Desktop Environments of the day. I have a computer science degree and can write my own terminal applications in C++, so maybe I'm biased, but in my experience, setting up a fresh install of Linux is much easier than setting up a fresh install of Windows, or at least it was back when I could see and based on installs of Windows 2000, XP, and 7... Admittedly, most Windows users never have to do a fresh install of Windows themselves while most Linux users do have to install Linux themselves and I have never attempted a blind install of Windows, though I'd rank the blind installs of Linux I've done as easier than the sighted installs I did of Windows. When I first switched to Linux, it was for many of the usual reasons, didn't want to deal with Microsoft, wanted to avoid proprietary software, wanted to dodge the majority of malware, wanted something that would use fewer system resources, it was the geeky thing to do, etc. I had long since ditched the usual Windows Applications in favor of the cross platform FOSS standards like Firefox, OpenOffice, and VLC and had always been more interested in console and handheld gaming than PC gaming, and what Windows-only applications I did have attachment to ran fine in Wine, so I didn't have too rocky a transition, and probably would have ditched Windows sooner except it was my freshman year at university and instead of having a television in my dorm room, I had an external TV card connected to my laptop. Once I made the switch, I fell in love with Apt and how it allowed me to just select software from a list and upgrade all installed software all at once instead of having to manually install every piece of software I use and having to manually upgrade each application individually. By the time I went blind, I had been a full time Linux user for so long that Windows Accessibility never crossed my mind., though there was a few months between when my vision got too bad for just making the fonts as big as possible to work and when I got a usable screen reader working, and admittedly, the distro I'm using comes preloaded with a lot of stuff I don't use, so a clean install invovles a lot of removing unwanted packages, but it gives me a live DVD I can refresh when there's a new release, boots up talking, and which I can install to hard drive and the only thing I need sighted assistence for with a new computer is fixing the boot order. Plus, the same disc serves as both install and rescue disc. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list