Why I choose Linux, was Re: NFB Net goes linux!

[Bear in SFO]

Why I chose Linux:  I can never get JAWS to read me ANYTHING in X-Windows 
or the DOS command prompt when it is run inside MS Windows.  All my sighted 
co-workers use X to run admin tools on their UNIX boxes, so I run 
Speakup.  It's quicker, I am more 'in control' of what I am doing, and the 
most important of all, I CAN DO THE JOB I CAN'T DO IN MICRO$OFT WINDOWS!!!

--David

At 07:34 PM 9/21/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Why I chose linux, that's because it's free and I can install it on as much
>computers as I want without worrying about licensing crap like I'd have to
>do with winblows.  The only reason winblows is still here is because I still
>haven't got reliable speech on linux and am still looking for a machine to
>devote completely to linux.  The only reason winblows will have to stay is
>because I need to do ocr and don't know of any ocr for linux.
>Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm
>sick of Winblows!
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kenny Hitt" <kennyhitt at knology.net>
>To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 6:59 PM
>Subject: Why I choose Linux, was Re: NFB Net goes linux!
>
>
> > Hi.  I have a non technical girl friend who had no problem starting to
> > use my system with gnome.  We've been together for a year.  She just
> > found console apps more trouble than using a MS-Windows computer.
> > Finally, I got X-windows working.
> > I never had to ask her to read a screen until
> > after I got gnome working. She likes the fact she can change everything
> > on her desktop to look and act the way she wants.
> > I install galeon for the default browser.  She loves it!  So far, she
> > can do any thing on the web she wants.
> > I still don't have access to the GUI, but that should change soon.  In
> > the mean time, I can do everything I did with a MS-windows computer with
> > console apps.  The only thing I don't have working is OCR.
> > The thing I like about this setup is all the software to do this is
> > free!  Sure, I spent a lot of time learning about a lot of things to get
> > it set up, but I have lots of time.
> >
> >           Kenny
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 05:46:54PM -0400, David Poehlman wrote:
> > > Ihave a non technical spous who loves the command line interface.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Darrell Shandrow" <nu7i at azboss.net>
> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > > Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 5:37 PM
> > > Subject: Re: NFB Net goes linux!
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Ann,
> > >
> > > Keep in mind that Linux is actually not appropriate for most users,
> > > especially the command-line interface.  Most people want their
> > > technology to
> > > be simple to operate.  They're not interested in how the computer works
> > > or
> > > anything of that sort.  They just want to use it to get work done!  For
> > > those non-technical users, Linux is typically inappropriate at this
> > > stage;
> > > that is changing, but these are the facts at this time.  And, this is
> > > coming
> > > from a Linux sys admin with 2 Linux boxes at home and administrative
> > > responsibility for numerous FreeBSD and Linux boxes at work.
> > >
> > > See, where I work, system admins also handle sales and technical
> > > support, so
> > > I am made aware of the non-technical nature of most people who use a
> > >
> > computer on a daily basis.
> >
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