Oh hey lookie, two months with Linux have flown by!
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Oh hey lookie, two months with Linux have flown by! Linux is just about the only OS I use at work now. And while yes, sometimes it can be a pain, mainly when selecting text in Google Chrome, Firefox doesn't seem to have that issue so much, and while I miss getting AI descriptions from whatever Orca is focused on sometimes, it still works very well, and is much more responsive than my Windows *gaming PC* ever is. Also I'm waiting for Orca 47 to come to Fedora so I can take that for a drive without having to build it from source. Also I wish Speech-dispatcher had a GUI config thing that allowed me to change a lot more settings in IBM TTS, like shorten pauses, turning off phrase prediction, all that. And there should definitely be an accessible digital audio workstation for Linux, and setting up embossers shouldn't be such a pain. But the foundations are all there, they just need programmers that can deal with not-Windows enough to make it more of a place blind people can thrive in.
But, overall, I really like it, and emacs with Emacspeak really makes it worth it for me. Org-mode helps me keep up with my tasks and write down a log all in the same file, but also not just plain text, it has an agenda view that works on that same file, and probably more that I can do with it; I've only gotten started. Oh and Emacs, with emacspeak of course, has an accessible calendar. Imagine that /s. The day Microsoft replaced the old, good, useful Windows Calendar with the **new** Outlook, was the day I gave up on them. That was simply the breaking point for me. I was on a call with a client that day, and boom! I was quite pissed off.
Oh, and being able to easily set Capslock as Control is really, really nice.