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[Eric Oyen]

ugh!
troubleshooting? I have done enough of that over the years trying to get programs to compile. what I hate is sloppy coding (which is responsible for most breakages in compiles). I have also troubleshooted enough to know that I am not a coder. I have to look up a lot of stuff, and when you have ears and fingers only to read with, that gets old in a very big hurry). btw, try learning computer raille. It's rules are a lot different from standard literary Braille. I have to keep those in mind a lot when reading code or formulas.

Its the same for keystrokes between screen readers (for instance, jaws and voiceover). only problem is, braille is a hell of a lot more complicated than some keystrokes.

-eric

On Aug 24, 2016, at 9:29 PM, Steve Litt wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 20:22:09 -0700
> Eric Oyen <eric.oyen at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
>> who was screaming that the post was irrelevant? I certainly wasn't. :)
>> 
>> At the end of the day, Linux still needs a lot of work to be
>> considered to be a viable desktop production environment.
>> 
>> can you get quicken for linux? what about Peachtree? How about a full
>> office suite that can do the same things that MS office can do? what
>> about some of the other mainstream office and production apps? are
>> there many equivalents or direct replacements? THis is the primary
>> problem I have seen with linux over the years. great OS support, but
>> lousy where it counts.
> 
> So I assume you're here only for the server aspects of Linux.
> 
> Anyway, a lot of small businesses don't require the use of Peachtree or
> Quicken. Heck, I go to the accountant every year and make it his
> problem. I can track book sales in a simple database. Some things I
> track in Gnumeric: You'd be surprised how you can write Python programs
> to make info in Gnumeric spreadsheets come alive.
> 
> Office suites? Libre's good enough to write a business letter, and if
> you're writing anything longer, neither Libre nor MSWord nor anything
> of that classification is what you need. I can tell you that first
> hand: I write and sell books. I happen to use LyX, but I think there
> are better tools and will soon switch (or perhaps make my own tool).
> 
> I can see where people who can't write a Python program or use a few
> power-user tricks wouldn't be able to do business activities on a Linux
> desktop, but who here fits that description?
> 
> SteveT
> 
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