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[Linux for blind general discussion]

Oh, well yeah I don't use Outlook, I use the Gmail web app.
Devin Prater
r.d.t.prater at gmail.com




On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 3:53 PM Linux for blind general discussion <
blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:

> We have a machine here running Windows 10.  It can be flaky--not so much
> the operating system as some of the software running under it.  Outlook,
> especially, has lots of fun bringing some version of the uncertainty
> principle to our lives here almost daily.
>
>
> Al
>
>
> On 4/14/22 16:10, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > Wow. None of that happens anymore. It's been years since you've used
> > Windows, it seems.
> > Devin Prater
> > r.d.t.prater at gmail.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 3:08 PM Linux for blind general discussion <
> > blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Also Windows just works. Nothing just crashes out of nowhere,
> >>
> >>
> >> When did that start happening? I always found just sitting down at a
> >> Microsoft computer to be a wrestling match. Random crashes usually at
> >> just the wrong time, many hoops to jump through just to do things I took
> >> for granted even in the days of good old-fashion DOS, just plugging in a
> >> printer or other simple device was enough to send my computer into a
> >> tailspin, and then there is all the antivirus and antispyware stuff I
> >> had to run that slowed down the computer almost as much as just the
> >> screen reader could do. Even the very first time I used a Linux
> >> computer, back before the days of graphical desktops with a11y that
> >> worked, I went from cursing my computer 3 or more times a day to cursing
> >> it maybe twice a month, and that was usually because I was intentionally
> >> breaking something so that I could learn how to fix it. That was before
> >> I tried to wrestle with EMACSpeak and Mutt LOL. I cursed EMACSpeak for
> >> like 5 to 10 minutes before I just gave up, and actually wrestled with
> >> Mutt for about a week before running back to Pine back in those days.
> >> Things have greatly improved since then.
> >>
> >> ~Kyle
> >>
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