Mastodawn

is linux ableist? how?

some backstory: i was talking to a friend who was thinking of switching away from windows 10 to a mac because windows 11 is... well, terrible for a slew of reasons. i, perhaps too excitedly, brought up linux. they were talking about wanting something that works and i said i struggled with too and linux is actually much easier to use than i thought it'd be.

they then called me ableist for recommending linux because its assumptive that someone who is neurodivergent like them would have an easy time with linux at all. that how linux works itself is inaccessible and ableist in of itself (whereas macs and windows are not). i tried opening up a more in depth conversation about it but they werent available for it. so i figured id ask here, because im really confused, and would like to learn more

#askfedi #Linux #ableism #help

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social elephant in the room 4d ago

@insecteuthanasia

Just calling linux ableist without more specificity is weird, I would let it slide.

I read here (I think) that it was not great for people with impaired vision. That I can accept, a user trying it first hand and pointing at some shortcomings. (It is massively build by volounteers after all.)

Perhaps more ND people in here would like to chip in... Even then, I would say ND people don't fit in a single basket... My ND friend is a heavily advanced linux user... (NixOS)

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Melon Poly!

@tseitr
yeah, i do agree on that last part. i am also ND and thats part of my confusion tbh. but i do not want to argue or assume and try to understand instead (especially since they tend to put the onus of educating on the other person). i do not know what their struggles are, though as far as i can tell they do not have vision problems. accessibility options in general are something ive thought of, i do not know what or how many accessibility options there are on linux distros (even the one i use, which is linux mint) compared to windows and mac.