Не знал что в Ubuntu стало всё так плохо. Давно отказался от идеи использовать хоть какой Linux в качестве домашней системы из-за тех или иных заёбов, потому уже и не помню когда что последний раз ставил. Хоть есть вещи, за которые Винде хочется дать по жопе, или из-за того что там не работает например Airflow без WSL и прочих танцев, но это всё можно стерпеть и пережить.

В статье увидел знакомое слово PulseAudio. Помню это говнище, как ещё в 2010 году выпиливал его из системы, потому что ничего другого не оставалось. С ним у многих тогда проблемы были, судя по различным тогдашним форумам.

"Speak on Boot" : definitely a +1 on that, as even those of us with working eyeballs can appreciate another channel of communication when the graphics display system has fried. Exponentially bigger challenge for certain people when it's the graphics perception biologics that's borked.

honestly, trying to work with Linux ends up feeling like Death by a thousand cuts. I end up running into driver issues, configuration issues, unexplained slowdown with internet speed, update problems and game performance issues every time I use Linux on one of my devices. Individually, they're usually not a big deal, but altogether they stop me from using Linux as anything more than a curiosity, or a rare data recovery machine.

great read. It reminded me of this article which I love .. except literally going in blind. What a disaster.

I knew it was bad but I am still shocked at the current state of Linux accessibility.

On the other hand, if one of those Linux warriors wants to _help_ a blind person get up and running on Linux and work through the difficulties, that's great. I used to participate on the Emacspeak mailing list in 2001, and there was a guy there who was new to Linux and Emacspeak, but one or two people from his local Linux users' group had helped him as much as they knew how. He still needed help from us on the list, but the fact that the LUG helped him stuck with me.

@evilheart Exactly! I mean, it's a perfect OS for server environment, and lots of blind people use it as such (SSH is your best friend here). But for desktop daily use… not yet, as Aaron wisely said.

I've had this vision for a NixOS installer that is fully blind-accessible by default for years now. NixOS really is the best tool for the job when it comes to making sure that a pile of shell scripts actually become maintainable long-term. However, everything is on fire and the backlog of "fixing the basics" is already half a decade long :/

With GNU/Linux is not a matter of "It works", it's the ideology behind it: Freedom