Re: [orca-list] Trying Quantal Quetsal Alpha 3

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

PDF is a very good choice for official documents, just that one company 
must not be allowed to have the control over the specs.
Fortunately it is not the case, yet adobe has tryed to do that to a 
great extent.
With GNU/Linux, I share same feelings as Kile since I have found it much 
more painless and hassel free to instal, configure and use. Frankly, 
these days I get disgusted if windows desktop is provided to me.
All that pc suit for mobile internet and other such stuff just irritates me.
And Orca, thanks to people like Joanie, has improved to such a great 
extent that it is not just convenient these days, but an enjoyable 
experience to use it, not to mention the progress firefox and 
thunderbird have made off late.

Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On 08/02/2012 03:30 AM, Kyle wrote:
> But you still seem to have missed the point that I have found it much easier and productive doing everyday 
> tasks such as e-mail, office applications and web browsing using Linux than I ever could do using Windows. 
> Never mind lists of links. I never needed them, and found them useless when I had them. I navigate Firefox 
> quite easily by the navigation keys provided. I do agree that PDF needs a bit of work, but PDF itself has 
> much better rivals that I can read much better. After all, what in the world is wrong with HTML? It can 
> certainly display anything that PDF can, and is much more accessible on many more platforms. Why did we ever 
> let Adobe try to control our documents (PDF) and web pages (Flash) anyway?  As for music, I don't do much 
> with sequencing and production, but I use Audacity all the time for recording and mixing. It has a couple of 
> bugs related to accessibility, but it certainly beats that pricy thing called Sound Forge and produces much 
> better recording effects.
>
> BTW, just because Microsoft and Apple decided to mostly do away with the command line and text based 
> interfaces doesn't mean that such interfaces shouldn't be counted among the choices we have. Knocking the 
> command line as an option is a bad idea, as there are still many good things that make a shell quite 
> productive. Having said this, I do tend to gravitate toward the graphical environment for most tasks, 
> although I always keep a terminal open on desktop 1.
>
> I don't write all this from an emotional attachment to an ideology, but rather from the prospective of 
> someone who has not only found increased productivity, but also learned much more about how my computer works 
> while still being able to just sit down at my computer and work without having to be a geek to get my work 
> done productively. But yeah, freedom is great too.
> ~Kyle