Part of the problem with being good at windows is you only know what they want you to know, no more. I do not wish to get in to a windows verses linux conversation. I think we all have are own reasons for using what ever operating system we choose. For example I wish to build linux based computers and I am sick of always having to pay for minor updates just to be able to use my software. Others are switching to linux because they do not like the gui other switch because they like to work with source code. What ever the reason linux should have a package right for you. I recommend that you try a few as I have done and see witch is right for you. I my self am leaning towards sarge but others have there likes and dislikes. Linux also has a gui interface and for many users it works wonderful. So I see no need to bash the gui interface. Many things, like registry editing not covered by help This is not true there are many help files on the Microsoft web sight concerning registry editing. There are also documentation on api vb script many other thing. So as in linux you can find out what you wish to know very easily if you are willing to read the documentation. It is true that windows assumes the average user would not wish to edit the registry so you have to download these help files but to say they are not available is not true. neither is the registry. This is why linux is better. When the program is complex, you just have a blank screen which forces you to read docs. When you have buttons and dialogs, you only think you can do a few things because only those options are put infront of you so you never rtfm. No what makes linux better is the choices it offers. In windows yes you have a command line you can use but the number of programs it works with are very limited these days. And while it is true that there are a number of shells for windows that would change the look and feel of your desktop once you start using these shell many windows programs will not work. Linux you have no such problem you can switch from using gnome to kde programs easily you have many desktop choices both in the text mode and the graphical mode. So to say the gui in windows is a bad thing is not really a fair statement to say that the lack of choices in windows is a fair statement. Windows for some things is a good operating systems. Linux for most things is a wonderful operating system and it is becoming much easier for an average non power user to use. Lindows for one has brought linux to the average sighted user in a wonderful way using kde all hardware is plug and play the cnr warehouse they use can get source code and build is for you with a singual click. There again linux is better because of the choices. Many of us on this list would not like such a system. But I can already tell you that when and if such a system becomes accessible for the blind user I am going to have a hi demand for such a system. The fact is that once this happens blind people are going to move away from windows and to linux in a big way. Two things are going to cause this. One the high price of screen readers for windows. To the fact that the blind user can not install his or her own operating system with out using a script and if some thing goes wrong he has no idea what the problem is. Once gnome or kde has a browser that will provide the same functionality that internet explorer provides threw the screen reader or other wise lets not wake up that debate again you are going to see a mass migration towards linux. I know there are a lot of browsers for linux but from what I have been reading freedom box still is providing the most access as a linux browser. I for one see no reason to pay to be on a network just to be able to use the browser. And that was the requirements the last time I tested this browser out. Maybe things have change. Well I am off my soap box.
