Oh, well yeah I don't use Outlook, I use the Gmail web app. Devin Prater r.d.t.prater@xxxxxxxxx On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 3:53 PM Linux for blind general discussion < blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We have a machine here running Windows 10. It can be flaky--not so much > the operating system as some of the software running under it. Outlook, > especially, has lots of fun bringing some version of the uncertainty > principle to our lives here almost daily. > > > Al > > > On 4/14/22 16:10, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > > Wow. None of that happens anymore. It's been years since you've used > > Windows, it seems. > > Devin Prater > > r.d.t.prater@xxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 3:08 PM Linux for blind general discussion < > > blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Also Windows just works. Nothing just crashes out of nowhere, > >> > >> > >> When did that start happening? I always found just sitting down at a > >> Microsoft computer to be a wrestling match. Random crashes usually at > >> just the wrong time, many hoops to jump through just to do things I took > >> for granted even in the days of good old-fashion DOS, just plugging in a > >> printer or other simple device was enough to send my computer into a > >> tailspin, and then there is all the antivirus and antispyware stuff I > >> had to run that slowed down the computer almost as much as just the > >> screen reader could do. Even the very first time I used a Linux > >> computer, back before the days of graphical desktops with a11y that > >> worked, I went from cursing my computer 3 or more times a day to cursing > >> it maybe twice a month, and that was usually because I was intentionally > >> breaking something so that I could learn how to fix it. That was before > >> I tried to wrestle with EMACSpeak and Mutt LOL. I cursed EMACSpeak for > >> like 5 to 10 minutes before I just gave up, and actually wrestled with > >> Mutt for about a week before running back to Pine back in those days. > >> Things have greatly improved since then. > >> > >> ~Kyle > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Blinux-list mailing list > >> Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list