Re: Why I left Linux and Android
Since I'm strongly considering a career in IT, I've been playing with all these systems except Linux. Each platform has its strengths and weaknesses. I know I used to criticize Microsoft Windows pretty hard for lack of built-in accessibility, but that has changed over the past year. Now I'm using Windows 10, macOS, iOS and to a lesser extent Android.
As long as you stick to the latest version of Android or can get at least Android 5.0, you're good to go for nearly all daily tasks. I started out using Kitkat and wasn't really impressed with it. Web views caused TalkBack to freeze and I found the nonworking accessibility shortcut to be unacceptable. Fortunately, Lollipop fixed these issues and it's only been getting better. As soon as LineageOS 15 is available for my 2013 Nexus 7, I'm jumping onto Android 8.0 Orio.
I love using macOS. The only problems I've run into are the horrible PDF support (which is vastly improved in the upco ming High Sierra release) and the lack of native MTP support in the Finder. This is extremely irritating because it means I have to use third party applications to access the internal storage of my Android device. I'd rather just plug it in and get access to the files in the Finder. As for Linux, I don't have the motivation to touch that just yet. There are so many distributions and I don't know which ones include Orca. I also don't like that the only choice of speech is the very robotic version of eSpeak. I've also heard that Orca has some problems, but I'm not 100% sure of that. Then again, Linux is more suited to running servers rather than standard GUI computing from what I've read.
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