Before that I was jamming with a #plaintext workflow using markdown, coteditor + terminal.app (zsh) + #pandoc after getting red-pilled by @patric. (2/8)

Becoming increasingly convinced that #emacs is the way forward for me; I have zero coding background but love the feeling of control/flexibility, especially since with my current level of vision having speech plus the ability to make text huge on a black background is lovely, and I find hackery tools like Emacs and Terminal to be way more visually accessible and (with some 40-pt asterisks) way better for speech output too. (3/8)

There's still part of me that misses the ultrasmoothness of Word on Windows with NVDA (web browsing felt more stable there too) but compared to my notepad++ life back then I am very happy indeed. (4/8)

So: all this CLI-happy FOSS-y jamming, plus the recent swell of smart people talking on here about the good and bad of Linux for a screen-reader user, has me very interested in Linux. I bought a wee Beelink mini pc, put Debian Trixie on it and got emacspeak running, but that was only because everybody left me alone on father's day, it was my version of going into the garage to build my canoe or whatever, and haven't had time to use it beyond that. (5/8)

I still haven't asked you my question. (6/8)

My question is just... any advice for a friendly non-technical low-vision new linux guy? or, kind of embarrassing to admit but I'm also hungry for encouragement: is this worth the effort? any cheerleaders care to cheer me on? so far, the emacs journey has felt like it's absolutely rewarded the hours of wilderness-wandering... is it safe to assume that the same dynamic with Linux will reward those timesunk dividends? Is Emacspeak more stable over there? (7/8)

I have the sense from lurking that MATE on X11 is the most ORCA-friendly setup but then @fireborn’s most recent blog makes me think I should try Wayland? I have long covid and feel befogged so please be kind if I've said something terminally wrong and uninformed, particularly about “x11” v "wayland" which i understand about as well as wave v. particle. I'll take my answer off the air, thanks for your time (8/8)