Hello,
I have computer from 2003. I got Windows XP and Window-eyes
screenreader. After 5 years I had Windows XP again and Winmonitor, Czech
screenreader. I tried all screenreaders - Jaws, Dolphin Screenreader
(formerly Hal). Combination Hal and NVDA was the best for me. In 2009
i've first meet linux, edition Blindubuntu. After two years, in 2011, my
computer instructor show me linux, Ubuntu 11.04. It was really super and
I've installed and set linux on my laptop. But Ubuntu 11.04 had many
bugs, many times Orca didn't speak, so I've switched to Vinux 3.2 and
without any bugs. But at school they wanted me to switch back to Windows
due to programming in Visualstudio 2012, which wasn't on linux. So I had
to format my computer and install Windows back. In 2012 one my friend
called me, he bought Macbook Air and it's really fine. I've bought
Macbook pro 13 and was comfortable. But I had to have virtual machine
for programming in Visualbasic. When my Macbook was broken - motherboard
and HDD, I've switched back to Windows. But Windows was sluggysh, it
crashed many times per month and I had to reinstall it with sighted
assistance. When Windows crashed me threetimes for three days, I was
really angry, with help of my friend formatted disk and installed Ubuntu
14.04, but not comfortable. My friend found Vinux and installed it to my
laptop and I was comfortable. Now I have linux for many years, since
September 2015 and I am comfortable. Sometimes I am thinking to buy Mac
due to writing Word documents or working better with some web sites, but
Mac is expensive for me. So I've installed Cloud ready to my old laptop
and I can work better with less accessible web sites.
Since summer 2020 I have Raspberry Pi 4B, Ubuntu Mate 20.04 and I am
comfortable. I don't use desktop or laptop, only sometimes Hypra laptop,
which I have since May 2019. I am not programmer, only user of linux,
but I am comfortable with that. I know linux has bugs, but everything
has bugs, something more, something less.
Best regards
Vojta.
Dne 27. 01. 22 v 3:59 Linux for blind general discussion napsal(a):
Hi Karen-and-thanks for an introspective topic. My road to Linux was a
slow transition. I had my first PC with DOS6 from 1994-97. Got windows95
so I would have an easier time playing mp3s, which were fairly new at
that time. The concept of just being able to mash enter on a highlighted
file to play was appealing. But a majority of the time I was stilling
going to a DOS prompt to get in to a shell account to read mail in what
was then pine. In 2003 once the late Bill Acker helped set me up with
DecPC drivers, we tried a duel boot system, including first Redhat9 and
later Fedora. Because there were so many anoying issues with those
DecTalk drivers, I found myself going back to windows where DecTalk
sounded great. Maybe early 2005 got either a newer pc and certainly a
USB DecTalk, which I still have. 1 night in 2006 a friend from
HighSchool was here, I tried playing him a Weird Al video, but each time
Windows Media Player would lockup. I finally just went back in
Linux-and-played him an audio version. Next time we went from Fedora 6
to 9 we practicly had a ceremony when we got rid of windows forever. In
2010 with needing a new PC, I switched to Debian, as they have more of
the latest packages.
In 2006 I got involved with a local Linux LUG, where I occasionally
received many hours of valuable asistance-and-even sometimes I was able
to help.
Even though I have many struggles with web-sites which I cannot access
because of the javascript disease, I am still willing to stick with
Linux, as once its setup, it is a comfortable envirenment.
I have a Chromebook which I almost exclusively only attend Zoom
meetings, as far as I know, no1 has written any commandline scripts to
run Zoom in a non-graphical setting. I also have a Mac but have not
really looked in to classes at an Apple store, but at least all of these
machines have Linux I can run.
Just last evening I was trying to help my Wife in windows7 but its
practicly a foreign language now from win98.
And lastly Karen, Linux provides me so much customization. I have 24
text consoles. My Linux expert wrote me software to play-and-record
streams with 4 sound-cards. I think I recorded maybe 10 streams at a
time-and-later edited them, as well as ajusting levels. So I have `much
flexibility in Linux-and-am `really happy here at nearly 70 next month.
Thanks so much for listening
Chime
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