The terminal is fine if one has a braille display and can use brltty, for which I know I should write a README but honestly I haven't been able to find time to do it! If nobody else does it first, I truly do plan to eventually. But in my opinion, without brltty, the terminal isn't much fun though it can be used for entering commands without too much trouble. With brltty, I just turn voiceover off if using the terminal for any length of time because I've had issues with terminal crashing and it doesn't seem to happen if voiceover isn't on.
I did run vmware with linux for a time and it's doable. I also fixed up an old powerpc Mac mini with wheezy for kind of a backup for my linux needs. Having homebrew and/or Macports does much broaden your options in terminal also. -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen LORD!!! > On Dec 11, 2014, at 1:43 PM, deedra waters <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, first of all i’m more or less happy with what i got in terms of the > macbook air. it’s portable and light which is good. I was able to sit in the > er for several hours waiting for my turn to see the doctor and was actually > not bored there for once. > > I had brought the macbook and a usb headset. Usually when i land in the > hospital they end up admitting me because of some of my medical issues. This > time though I wasn’t admitted but had i been i’d have books at least! > > Either way the 10ish hours passed rarely quickly with something to do. I was > really annoyed the fact that i couldn’t get my media i’d brought to play for > the life of me…. Instead i watched episodes of days of our lives from the > iTunes store *snicker* > > From a linux point of view though things are quite different. for example > tail -n 50 doesn’t work across platforms in terms of the mac and linux with > the mac you have to type something like tail -50 to get what you want. > Little things like that ended up requiring the linux/unix skills of my fiancé > to get certain of my scripts and some other python tools to work properly. > > I’m highly unsatisfied with the terminal though I mean it does simple mac > type things fine and works well enough for that but unless i buy vmware > fusion or unless there’s a cheaper way of getting a linux vm up and running > for those tasks that just don’t do well in the mac terminal > > The speech interrupts are highly annoying in the terminal i’d kill for a way > to turn those off and on. I also ended up buying a few apps that just make > things simpler for me. Take the my medical app. With as sick as i am, that > app is almost a needed thing. I’ve been working to get as much of my medical > records as possible put into the app so that way if worse comes to worse all > i have to do is turn voiceover off, they should be able to access and read > the info then give the thing back to me. In theory at least it sounds like a > great idea. I’m probably going to have to find a way of getting the data to > export to a readable format such as pdf for them. > > Mac journal i also found useful for several things. > > Over all, i like what i got. I still have a ton to learn but i think that > that will come with time and practice. Now to hunt down iTunes podcasts.:) > > > deedra waters > [email protected] > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
