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I have trouble with using tone in my words but not interpreting tone from others’ words. Weird, isn’t it?

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  • installing it successfully is an accomplishment

    Not really with archiinstall, but indeed as you say reading the manual is an expectation. Their philosophy is “creating an environment that is straightforward and relatively easy for the user to understand directly, rather than providing polished point-and-click style management tools”, as well-summarized by Wikipedia.

    wants to shape their OS and user experience as they think is best

    tbh that goes for every distro. It’s just that Canonical is more hands-on with its approach. The major complaint with Snap besides performance issues is Canonical making it so that only the Snap versions of popular apps (most famously, the bundled Firefox) are available by default.




  • okay that’s enough. here’s the actual answer:

    People have told me I don’t know how good I have it.

    That my complaints about Linux['s accessibility for the blind] are too much. That I’m spoiled. That back in the day, things were harder. That Windows XP was worse in every way. That modern systems are faster, more usable, more accessible — and I’m just being dramatic.

    So I decided to call that bluff.

    —part 1

    One of the points Fireborn made in their famous “I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back” series is that Linux accessibility has deteriorated a lot over time.