I currently have a Windows laptop dual booted with Ubuntu. It's definitely not the best environment, but I have to make it work. I was wondering what laptop would the Blind community recommend for web development. TIA
Real developers don’t need one
Did you give a shot at using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), with an Ubuntu or whatever distro on top? Given all the mac nonsense (touch bar, no USB A ports, heck almost no ports anymore) I'm considering switching from Mac to that.
Before I get trashed for not considering native Linux, even being a developer I need to write the occasional Word/Excel/PowerPoint or use Outlook and we don't have Office 365.
I haven't done that, no. I shall take a look. I'm looking to change my laptop since it's old now and the machine gets overwhelmed for every tiny thing now.
Why aren't you just working on windows and connecting to the Ubuntu remotely with putty/intellij/power shell /etc...
Mac is your best option. It has a nice Unix environment (bash shell, node, pip, ssh all run smoothly) with other tools you may need as a web dev (Photoshop? Outlook, word, Excel)
Dell XPS 13 (for the gorgeous display) or waahwee matebook pro (for best value)
For the blind community I highly recommend a laptop with a Braille keyboard.
I tried linux for a long time and got tired of something constantly falling off: bluetooth, mouse, camera or mic, skype intermittent fails. I don’t have time to fix this. Linux is for servers. Client is Win or Mac. Using both now, pretty stable
Switched from win/linux to mac. Never come back. Mac Ui is so pleasant to the eyes
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Linux all the way. Fuck Macs and their expensive ecosystem. Linux is way ahead coming to the user experience. Stability is not as sharp as osx but fuck it, you can pretty much fix everything on a linux machine. Get a nice laptop and try Linux mint, Solus, Fedora or Manjaro. Go with the one you like.
there are distros for good stability - i.e. debian also, the biggest barrier to being able to fix problems is lack of open source and root privileges
Well, what laptop would you recommend? I have a Lenovo right now.