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Winter blue tardis

Says the windows user. The other tends to disagree, which means, points straight at me. Honestly though, I only use windows when I am visiting elderly grandparents, and I have a windows in the house, but even then I am dragging two macs around because. I mean I can even game on mac these days why do I need windows, again? But yeah, I don't like win 11. I am glad I still have a computer with 10 on it, and I will install any tweek under the known sky, if it lets me keep what I have. I don't care about support or security, or whatever. Just that, 10 is better than 11.
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I mean, damn it. I tried windows for year, 20 years on windows, and only about, five on mac. I just, never want to look at windows again, unless it's for work, or because I want to run games specifically on windows. I just don't see things I can't do on mac I can do on windows, even microsoft's apps are better, which is ridiculous. I would like to guess that you're not using the actual explorer, but from that post, you probably are. Anyway, I also had huge issues with windows audio, and because I am losing hearing, hehe. Something always breaks, somehow, and I have to fix it, all the time. IT gets tiring after a while. I love NVDA though, I won't lie, that's probably the only thing I like windows for, and it's not for windows itself, it's for the option to have NVDA. And yes I have a watch and an iPad and a phone, actually two of them, a retired one I will use for work, but I have android too. So me and the war between mac and windows doesn't apply. Still though, when people report that windows works, the apps work, etc. without the mother of scripting scripts and addons, I will be super happy, because ms is vibe coding these days, so much that they even visually had an update where the password field was a blank. Thingy on the screen. What in the name of OS coding is that? LOL. I guess windows 10 is dead for good now, but I am still running it. Also, windows is getting heavier and heavier on Ram usage, and its ram usage is just so... Inifficient, that we had 1000tabs in excel, and mac never complained, launched it on windows, and my 16Gb weren't enough, for some odd reason. Haha. I would love me laptops with awesome specs, but neither do I have the money, nor do I want stuff that weighs five KG because you know, gaming laptops, but actually for work. :D
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@tardis I use a terminal every day, so yes, for me it's a necessity. Probably I need to see a working Mac somewhere. but when I last saw it, it was a pain to work in the browser, for example. Don't know about VS Code for Mac these days, which I also need. Also, on windows I have WSL that allows me to have basically a lightweight Linux environment for console development.
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Oh, there's tdsr both for linux and mac. I mean, if the linux terminal works well, it wouldn't exist for it, but apparently, it exists. IT works well with mac, for now. Except, my speech framework was bugged, so I had to delete espeak, and now I has 0 Bulgarian readability, hehe. Browser is good, browser is like an iPhone with a keyboard, in some ways, I see it as more logical. Also, the options to customise stuff for visually impaired users is huge, better than on windows in some cases, my colleague said so.
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Winter blue tardis

I mean, if you mean that I could use my braille display on mac, without using a keyboard for everything, then yes, braille support probably sucks, but it doesn't. You could connect braille displays on mac way before you could with NVDA, without downloading any drivers, etc. And now that focus have added HID toggles and stuff, it's awesome. MacOs looks so much like a freakin phone now, kind of. IF you're on an iPhone, switching won't even be hard, except the shortcuts. You can assign so many more things in VO now that didn't work before. Now, if they fix a few annoying bugs, it'll be great, but they haven't yet.
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I don't think you can customise braille tables, because libloui and apple's braille tables, but libloui is for example broken for bulgarian, so is apple's and we have written feedback, I just guess a lot of users have to do that. But you don't need language profiles, because you can switch with just cmd vo shift between tables. Mac has two rotor-like things. One is like the one on the phone, the other one has voices, braille tables, rate, volume, pitch, etc. So I have three or so braille tables. And yeah, I think you can reverse assign your panning keys, or change the auto advance speed, assign keys on the display to do that, etc. Maybe there's a way to customise liblouis tables, but I am not sure, maybe there isn't. I haven't looked extensively into that.
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Oh yeah, I can make cursors non-blinking, I can tell the status cells to screw off, I can make underlines, italics, whatever the heck I want to do with the thing. The only thing I can't do, is update the focus via mac, but that's an fs issue, not my issue. I have windows for that. IT actually fell into a bootloop, and I had to flash its firmware twice, it sucked.
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