Yep Scott, glad you mentioned Win10 privacy, I forgot about that, and yes that’s why I’m not using it. It’s not to say that it’s a bad OS, though, because it isn’t, but there’s still Win8.1 and Classic Shell or, if you want to go retro, Win7. Both run on that Mac Mini 2014 and Win8.1 and CS is what I’d go with. You can apply the GPO to keep it from babbling away to M$ or forcing you into Win10.
I don’t like the direction MS are taking with their charge and slurp and subscriptions approach. I believe that’s just wrong. The direction Apple are taking with macOS isn’t much to my liking either, but at least it’s rational, if not entirely tenable because of ultimate cannibalisation from large-screen iOS devices and iOS itself. However despite Windows’ general lack of, well anything at all really, it still represents a decent desktop OS choice now that’s a known quantity for people who need more flexibility or lower prices, and does at least have the virtue of having a very long lifecycle for the releases on existing hardware. All the exciting developments in other operating systems for accessibility are first-party, but apart from ChromeOS I can’t see any development on desktop at all. I keep meaning to try Orca again in the hope that it sucks less now, but I’m still of the opinion that Linux is too far away from many people and especially those without console skills and probably braille as well. macOS has sadly fallen into the state of being a superb illustration of what is theoretically possible with mainstream accessibility, but also what can go horribly wrong when the company developing it loses interest in the platform. Not to say it’s a bad option, because it does still have very many virtues and I still cherish it, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if I went on a really bad acid trip one evening and woke up to discover that all my desktops were running Windows either. :) -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
