Re: [orca-list] linux full time

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

Well, I think it's a waste of time to talk about whether someone who's a 
certain age or grew up using whatever would prefer one interface over 
another. According to these predictions, I'd be using Mate or some other 
Gnome 2 like interface, but even though I grew up using Windows with 
it's start menu, it didn't take me long to appreciate Unity and then 
Gnome 3. If I ever go back to Windows, it won't be to use the start 
menu. Let people choose the interface they want and don't assume people 
can't learn and appreciate how to do something different.

On 07/05/16 00:04, Burt Henry wrote:
> No  feathers ruffled here, and just for the record for those who do not
> know I have many fewer years of computer use under my belt than you do
> although I am almost twice your age.
> I was half way joking, although the truth at the core I still stand by,
> i.e many people I know who use windows, most sighted, a few screenreader
> using blinks, use their desktop and or start menu for launching aps.
> They are more  likely to use the search box for looking for files perhaps,
> but point is they like seeing program lists, and would appreciate the
> categorized view that Linux's "olderschool" interfaces generally provide.
> I was trying to take  mopre than one side of the discussion in my overly
> verbose post, and get that ppl probably stopped paying attention before I
> was finished.
> Anyway, as I mentioned my main approach for accessing aps and even my most
> used folders is with a consistent set of keybindings I have little skin in
> the game in the search vs. menu discussion/game.
> There are things I like and dislike about each of the most accessible
> Linux desktops.
> Back to the original point: of course choosing fromj a somewhat self
> organizing list was the next "thing" after human readable cli clis, just
> saying that they still work great, and for many do not feel tired or
> clunky.
> When I started using modern computers vista was already out, and although
> I never used it for more than an odd session here and there, I'm certainly
> not just someone set in my 1990s or 2000s ways.
> I only gotg my toes wet in dos, skipped every windows till XP, and really
> only have xp and win7 experience on that side of the isle as it were.
> I certainly did gnome2, but dove right in to unity till I was as
> comfortable with it as anything else, and only went full speed ahead with
> my custom keybindings and very lightweight guis in the last couple of
> years.
> The ability to choose it where it's at/viva Linux!

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Christopher (CJ)
chaltain at Gmail