[orca-list] Considering moving to Linux Ubuntu from macOS

[James AUSTIN <james londonsw15 gmail com>]

Hi all

Some of you may be aware of me from my recent post requesting information on Skype and Orca compatibilityy. 
Thanks to Tyna and Alonzo for assisting with this. However, I am writing this time, because I am considering 
a switch from macOS to Linux, possibly Ubuntu.

Writing

Much of my writing is a combination of Pandoc and Pandoc -flavoured Markdown, with a little.docx work. 
Presumably the former can be written with a slue text editors, and the latter with Libre Office. I also 
presume that Email --- namely Exchange and Gmail can be handled by either Evolution or Thunderbird.

Reading

I read a lot of PDFs. How does Orca handle them? Voice Over can read the OCR layer, but none of the 
accessibility information such as headings.

I also read a lot of Ebooks from Kindle. I would be willing to read other vendors too, if Orca has better 
compatibility with these.

Web

I understand that Orca works well with Firefox, but if there any easy way to access links etc i.e.  links 
list mapped to a keyboard shortcut?

Bibliography 

I keep a bib latex file managed through Bibdesk for searching. Is there anything similar for Linux?

Device support 

I am writing this on an iPhone, is there any support for such devices on Linux?

OS

Every time I look at Linux I am attracted to Ubuntu. Is this the easiest distro for a newbie to start with 
please?

Thanks for any advice and help, and apologies for the long post.

Take care 
James


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