Re: help neded from linux deebien users
@prince animeshh: as someone who has tried doing this, I can't recommend against it strongly enough. Debian is the best thing on earth for servers. But for desktops, it's a total disaster. Sound support is broken, fragile, and nonstandard in lots and lots of scary ways. Orca just is not there yet, at least as of 6 months ago. Firefox support is so absolutely awful as to be nearly completely unusable if you're dealing with complex apps like Google Docs, gMail, or even Wave Accounting; rendering dynamic pages is going to take forever when the page contents is changed via AJAX, and Orca and Firefox will crash frequently. Accessibility support for things like the new Unity interface on Ubuntu is just not complete, and package updates will switch you over without warning. The same goes for Gnome3 on Debian, where things are only slightly better. If you're on a laptop, power management is absolutely abysmal, and you sho uld expect at least a 50% decrease in battery life. And I'm on a Lenovo, something that both the distro and manufacturer advertise as fully supported. I can say that they have at least sorted out Wireless support; two years ago, that never, ever worked. But it isn't nearly enough. Blind users on Linux are 3rd class citizens; to get things working, we have to use our own custom, out of date distributions, and/or stick with out of date software and interfaces. This is unacceptable. Right now, the experience for a blind user on Debian or Ubuntu is about what it was in the Windows 3.1 days. If you want something Unix like, get a mac. If you can't afford a mac, install Cygwin.
Linux Fanpeople: please don't bother responding. I administer 6 Linux boxes, and am perfectly comfortable compiling kernels and reading man pages to get things working. Never-the-less, the desktop experience is not anywhere near acceptable, and I have no time for your condescension on this matter. So why get your blood pressure up?
Edit: Clarified that Unity is Ubuntu's fault.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=157652#p157652
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