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I started with Ubuntu 8.10 in early 2009. From there I've tried mostly Ubuntu but have explored other distros. My usage pattern usually goes like this. I get sick of some Windows BS or just want to convince myself I'm a competent IT industry professional. I install some Linux distro on a separate SSD and only boot into that for as long as I can. The phase usually lasts from a week to about 2 or 3 months. My longest I think was between November 2023 and March of 2024 where I used Mint. I've tried all the various *buntus, Pop!_OS, CentOS (RIP). I've even used Arch ^btw^, installed it myself and everything. In the end I either run into something that simply doesn't exist on Linux or get sick of arcane kludges for things that just work on Windows and then come crawling back to Bill feeling defeated. This happens at least once a year but usually more.
Non-existent accessibility is the biggest hurdle, and I have zero faith that it will improve. Accessibility is an afterthought even for huge companies with the resources to devote to it, and you can forget about it for the comparatively smaller loose associations of developers contributing to the software stack that is a typical Linux distro. I was there for the transition from GNOME 2 to Unity and eventually to GNOME 3, as well as from X to Wayland, and it's just been downhill each time. Orca simply doesn't work, period. Magnification, if present at all, is glitchy and prone to freezing or crashing. The best I can do is a workaround using espeak and xclip to speak text copied to the clipboard, which, yes, involves the terminal. Is it cool that that's possible? sure. But I have to put an alias into my .bashrc and constantly tab back and forth between whatever I'm reading and the terminal. Not a big deal if you're only doing it once or twice, but I have to do it hundreds of times a day. If you encounter a little issue that often it's no longer little. On windows it's just ctrl+alt+LMB that's it.
I find it's really hard to impress upon sighted users why this is a problem. Imagine someone hands you a laptop, but the monitor either doesn't work or shuts off at random. Then when you complain, you're told "It works for me" or "That's not my problem" or "I don't know how to help you" or if you're lucky, a half-dismissive "We're working on it." That's Linux when you're blind. Can you live with a non working display? Would you call an OS like that ready to ship? Yes this is a problem with commercial software as well, but it's orders of magnitude worse with Linux.
I just cannot imagine in any way microslop being more helpful in that regard or any, if there is any os where the magnifier is broken it is windows
What makes you qualified to make that statement? I have to rely on assistive software to use a computer. I am the only judge of what meets my needs, and years of trying to use it have informed me that desktop Linux does not meet my needs. period. end of discussion. I have made the reasons why clear elsewhere in this thread.
I am the sole arbiter of what I am wondering about and it's not if Linux meets your needs if you look closer