Re: [orca-list] Replacing Windows with Linux, accessibly?

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

On 12/9/22 19:30, Rastislav Kish via orca-list wrote:
> Personally, I wouldn't say Linux is less accessible than Windows. For
> me, it seems more appropriate to say, that many things are done
> differently on Linux than on Win.

Yes, exactly. Under Linux, the graphical user interface remains very 
much a convenience on top of the command line interface and 
configuration files - not a substitute for them.

By contrast, in Microsoft's operating systems, every option and every 
function seems to have a graphical tool, leading to extraordinary 
complexity in the graphical interface.

In my view, most Linux graphical desktop developers aren't trying to 
replace the power and complexity of the command line interface, but they 
are trying to make simple tasks easy. Hence we have deliberately simple, 
even minimal, graphical desktop environments, and the understanding that 
there's a richer, text-based interface underneath.

Fortunately, Orca supports the terminal as well as graphical 
applications (in so far as the latter are accessible). Then there are 
console-based screen readers, of course.