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Andre Louis Sep 6, 2025

'Everyone can use Linux. What do you need Windows/MacOS for? Some stupid game you barely play anyway? Stupid MS office apps that your company makes you use?
I even got my granny to use Linux, one day I just swapped out her stupid windows and she never even noticed.'

I see a lot of that around here. It's blatantly not true, and no not *everybody* can just 'up and use linux' so easily.
Screen-reader users for example.

I'm happy some can be so blazé about it, but when a screen-reader is your gateway to the world of computing, jumping on the Linux bandwagon is neither simple nor as easy as pie.

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Hell's Kitchen Bitches! 🦮🔥Sep 6, 2025

@FreakyFwoof OK wanna place a bet on how many reply guy blind techbros are going to hop in here and explain to you in great and exhausting detail how it is actually possible? lol.

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Andre Louis Sep 6, 2025

@Pawpower I'll virtually fuck'em and chuck'em. I have no time for it honestly, and just don't care. I'll piss around with Linux in a VM or whatever, but I'll not be using it as a primary OS any time soon. lol

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Sarah Russell Sep 6, 2025

@FreakyFwoof @Pawpower I jsut wish people would let pople use what hey like without being pushy about the thing they like to use themselves. Suggest, sure, but don't get all batshit about it if someone is like no I'm good.

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Hell's Kitchen Bitches! 🦮🔥Sep 6, 2025

@blindbat84 @FreakyFwoof Jesus I have really noticed this amongst blind folks. Windows, Mac, jaws vs NVDA, bla bla bla. FFS why does anyone care about what the next guy uses. PS freedom scientific aren't your family. The loyalty to a corporation just seems so freaking bizarre to me. But if folks use jaws good on them I hope it works.

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Sarah Russell Sep 6, 2025

@Pawpower @FreakyFwoof and OMG yeah the JAWS vs NVDA debate is crazy, I absolutely don't like JAWs and will bitch about it, and Iwill use it, but I appreciate that JaWS and NVDA each have things they do better than each other, but Istil have my preference. But note, preference, not demand, though there is plenty of razzing aboutit in the accessibility team.

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Chris Cooke Sep 6, 2025

@blindbat84 @Pawpower @FreakyFwoof Love the banter here because I'm a pineapple on pizza gal and the toilet paper goes over. :-) Seriously, it's wonderful that we have choices to make. Most blind people in the world, I would venture to say, can't afford or don't have access to a screen reader that you have to pay for. Nor do they have a smart phone. So, whatever platform you have access to and/or whichever one you like is just great. Choices are awesome! And we are so blessed to have them!

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@CreativeChris @blindbat84 @Pawpower @FreakyFwoof I would like to make one contentious point. The toilet paper never goes under. That is not a choice that is allowed to be made. Smiley face.