I don't think Linux pros are ready to support the many people that will flood Linux once Windows 10 is end of life. Especially the blind Linux community which, for some, require users to go through what they went through in order to become "good" at Linux. That, of course, involves burning themselves on distributions that don't come with Orca, or learning which desktop environment works well with Orca, which ones work enough for a specific user to use the subset of it that works for them, all that. Oh and finding accessible apps. And games. And voices. And all the weird commands, like Control + Tab instead of F6 in some situations, like the language picker in the Fedora installer.

Also there honestly aren't enough blind Linux users to support everyone that will inevitably come to Linux from the BT Speak, or Windows 10, or the continuing entropy of Windows 11. I just hope we can be patient with newcomers and not expect them to know Linux before they've learned it. Oh and RTFM? There barely is a manual to read. But there is this:

github.com/C-Loftus/orca-intro…

Which is a guide of sorts. So maybe I'll find time to work on that a bit.

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