@marco @doubletap I really enjoyed that podcast. I've been thinking about getting an M5 air with 24GB of memory for iOS development and virtualization, but am still apprehensive about the "not responding" horror stories I've heard, and the reputation of web browsing being less efficient. On the other hand, learning how to use a Mac would be useful since I'm in software development, and there's also Emacspeak which I've heard good things about. Is an M-series Mac your daily driver?

@neurrone @doubletap Yes, I totally switched to the Mac three years ago. I don't even have Windows installed in a VM any more. Or rather, never had on this iMac. It's an M3 iMac, and I also own a MacBook Neo. As I said in the podcast, I don't experience the "not responding“ problem. For me, pages load fine in both Safari and Firefox. I don't know anything about Emacspeak, other than that it exists. Your best bet for software development is probably VS Code for many languages like JavaScript, Python, Go, PHP or whatever. Xcode of course is essential for iOS development. And yes, I'd recommend an M5 MacBook Air rather than a Neo for that, since for Xcode and more complex stuff, the M5 with 24 Gigs sounds very comfortable. Also, the MacBook Air is very portable. And in Terminal, you have a native Unix-style environment.

@marco @neurrone @doubletap Happy Mac user here, and I agree with everything Marco has said. I'll add that you probably also want tdsr as your terminal screen reader, VO doesn't do speech queuing, so it is not suitable for that use case, hence why TDSR exists. It's not as good as the Linux screen readers, but it's certainly better than NVDA. You can cat bible.txt and it'll handle that just fine.