I'll answer the why question first.
Because it just works, bar a few minor quirks. I don't have to stop what
I'm doing to update. I can know what is on my system and if something I
need isn't in a repo, I can find it in, say, the AUR, or Github, or
Gitlab, or pip.
It's not really a case of why do I use /Linux/, it's more why do I use
this setup of Linux. Because it works for what I want. Is it 110%
perfect? No.
But it is, for my use case, a hell of a lot better than Windows thinking
it knows best, using my bandwidth and making it hard to control what is
on the system. I don't have to pay through the nose for what I
personally need, or have people on the Windos side hit me over the head
with their preferred screenreader of choice. I can use what I want with,
99% of the time, nobody being extremely preachy, or going 'but but pay
$900 for this software you absolutely need'
Nah. I can install and after a little bit of setup, be it with an
installer, or by hand, I can be up and going. I could probably just
write a little script to install what I want and config what I want on a
new system.
Also, I've not had that many kernel panics or BSOD equivalents in Linux,
whereas I regularly had 1-2 BSOD on Windows due to hardware that didn't
work that well but works flawlessly in Linux. I'll take stability and
uptime, and not having a preachy, judgemental bunch of people trying to
pressure me into buying some bit of access software, any day.
Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Your mac in the terminal is a flavor of unix so all that is familiar to you in linux is the same. Macports and homebrew are two of the
repositories with many of the same choices as in the linux ones. The many mac quality voices are available also.
On Wed, 26 Jan 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
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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