Re: [orca-list] Use Linux as a daily driver

[MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <jmengual linuxfromscratch org>]

Hi,


Le 27/01/2016 12:23, Øyvind Lode a écrit :
> Hi all:
>
> I want to give Linux a chance as a daily driver.
> I have a workstation that I can use for testing out different Linux distros.
> If all goes well I'd love to switch to Linux as my main OS on my laptop as well.

It's mainly possible. I do this.

> My requirements:
>
> * Using the web is important.
> I particularly need to use banking and the gmail interface.
>
> * Email - see above.
> I use the Gmail standard view to manage my email and it works great on
> Windows with Firefox and NVDA.
> Of course I can go back to use a email client like Thunderbird if Orca
> does not handle the gmail interface to my satisfaction.
> However, I really prefer the webmail approach.

No problem, provided that you use the legacy webmail interface, instead
of the modern one.

> * Use the terminal effectively; especially remote admin work via ssh.
>
> * OCR
> I currently use ABBYY FineReader on Windows and it's a great solution.

It's not great on Linux. Some tools exist, e.g. Lios, etc, related to
tesseract engine, but it's clearly not extraordinary.

Why not dualboot to deal with this? With a shared folder between your
Win and Linux?

Regards,

> How well does Linux/Orca perform with the above requirements?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Øyvind
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