Hi Dark,
Sure. As I said before that is perfectly understandable. However,
weather you have a use for Windows 7 or not is really beside the point.
The fact is that when you or anyone else buys a new computer you'll get
Windows 7 on it and you will have to either roll with the change or
remain in the technical dark ages with XP. Its not necessarily pleasant
or something you like, but what alternative do you really have?
I'll use myself as an example. You know that I use Linux quite a lot
instead of Windows. I was very happy with the way accessibility and
development was going clear up to Ubuntu 10.04 and the Gnome 2.32
desktop. However, last year things went down hill in my opinion in a
hurry. The Gnome developers released the Gnome 3.0 and Gnome 3.2
desktops which broke accessibility in a number of cases, and there were
changes I didn't particularly like about the new Gnome desktop. To add
to my frustration Ubuntu decided to drop the Gnome desktop in favor of
their own desktop, Unity, which was totally different and less
accessible than Gnome 2.32. Obviously this situation has me just as
reluctant to upgrade to new versions of Ubuntu just like you don't want
to upgrade to newer versions of Windows. However, the way I see it is
that I don't have much of a choice long term.
Ubuntu have what are called long term support releases, LTS, which are
only good for two years. So if a person downloads 10.04 LTS in April
2010 the updates, applications, and support for that release will end in
April 2012. Sure, a person can continue running it long after that point
but there will be no new patches or updates available in software center
for that release. If they want patches, updates, and new applications
they have to upgrade to the new LTS release Ubuntu 12 which comes out
sometime next month, or that person has to manually apply those patches
by getting the source, compiling, and installing it themselves. Normally
this isn't a problem, but for me I find it very frustrating.
I've got Ubuntu 12 beta installed here in a virtual machine, and I have
to confess I hate it. the accessibility has taken a nose dive since
Ubuntu 10, and there are all kinds of strange bugs that make it less
than ideal for me. One bug that we are discussing on the Orca list is
the fact when arrowing through a menu Orca announces the underscore
character used to identify the hot key for the menu selection. You might
be arrowing through Thunderbird's menus and hear something like Prefere
underscore nces. Where it correctly identifies the n is the underlined
character, but it disrupts the word making it difficult to figure out
that its saying Preferences. I'm sure eventually said bug will get
fixed, but until it does, as well as other annoying bugs, I have no
desire to upgrade to Ubuntu 12. So I understand your reluctance to
upgrade to Windows 7 as our situations are similar if not exactly the same.
Cheers!
On 3/11/2012 7:16 AM, dark wrote:
Hi Tom.
well it is true that I didn't know about creating local user
directories for installation like that, however a lot of reluctance
with windows 7 is based on actual experience I've had with the user
interface.
I for instance like my computer laid out logically with many
directories and folders, and use windows explorer constantly to go and
find the stuff I want, just as if I was picking them off a book shelf.
For instance I have a folder in the programs menue called audio games,
within which are folders for gma, bsc, blind adrenalin etc. I have
tried the windows 7 search box, but strongly dislike it, sinse I
always prefer looking through the material I have and being able to
review it, and those user interface functions are just plane not!
there on windows 7 sinse microsoft went for a flashy, ridiculous ui
that is hell for a screen reader. I know classic shell will help with
this, but if I'm going to make every effort to turn windows 7 into xp,
---- what's the point in windows 7 anyway? it's not as if there really
is that much i want to do that requires it, indeed a lot of the things
i do with computers will be blocked by having it.
That is why, though I may well have to get a windows 7 machine if my
desktop gives up the ghost, I'm not in the least looking forward to it.
Frankly I wish microsoft had just carried on with a better version of
xp rather than changing the entire interface, layout, architecture and
everything else to something that is far less screen reader friendly.
Though i have actually heard windows 8 is to have better compatibility
with older programs sinse so many people disliked the way windows 7
broke this, which is a point in it's favour over 7.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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