Andre LouisSep 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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@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.
Show threadAndre LouisSep 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
Show threadPratik Patel

@FreakyFwoof @Pawpower The *year of Linux* for blind people will be long time in coming. I see bunch of efforts to make various desktop environments accessible. They start and then people lose focus. Or someone decides that there's something better that will replace the current half-baked accessible environment. And no one has paid attention to accessibility on the shiny new thing. And so the cycle goes.

#accessibility

Sep 6, 2025 at 6:13pmWeb