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I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 1 – Built for Control, But Not for People — fireborn
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this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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Sounds indeed overly rant-y and tired. Stubborness is no good if it becomes an obsession, so doing something else if things start to break may help cool one's head down and think where things are really going wrong.
What? No, I feel like his tiredness is entirely warranted.
Didn't mean it isn't, only that maybe he should take a break if things keep breaking for him. Did it myself a lot early on my Linux usage, and it also helped a lot.
While this post touches on issues that affect the author personally the post and follow up posts should be treated more as a community wake up call rather than a rant from a disaffected user.
This is important public advocacy.
They're writing about a serious decline in accessibility that should never have been allowed to happen. It affects all users who need these features and tools to work.
From what, computers? That's not really a thing nowadays.
Or rather from what the context entails, setup with Orca.
You just said the thing in different words. For the blind, Linux is Orca, just as Windows is JAWS. The only OS that makes the blind and disabled community first-class citizens is Mac, and I say that bring someone who's strongly disliked Apple since around the era of the 2E.
Windows provides support and APIs that are established and work reasonably. Linux might, but it's next to impossible to figure it out and keep it stable.
So when you say "Step back from Orca", you actually mean, "buy a Mac and curse the name of Linux."
Fireborn later endorsed the BT Speak PDA which runs a custom open source OS with the Linux kernel
Unfortunately, the Linux kernel and the common use of "Linux" in terms of an OS aren't always the same. The kernel is important, but it's about making sure that Arch, Ubuntu, Kali, Mint, Zorin, Fedora Core, etc. have those features - and to 99% of the computing public, all of those are Linux.
So if that PDA solves the problem, figure out how, and how to use that to make the UX better for the blind across the whole ecosystem.
Pretty much the same thing for someone blind
...for real?