Awesome! If they spend some of it on accessibility, the year of the Linux desktop may be near for blind people like me. Windows has gotten so bad that if you have File Explorer open to the Home section, NVDA just says "pane" instead of reading out the home section. That's along with other papercuts and rough edges on the OS. But oh no, Windows 11 was made <s>from the ground up to be accessible!</s>. And I think we've already seen the Safari not responding thing for Macs.

Linux already has a good foundation. BRLTTY works with just about any Braille display, cups can print both text, and even images, to Braille printers, and Emacspeak has existed since the late 90's. Even on Windows, the best and most useful addons for a screen reader are on NVDA, the open source one. Imagine what we can do when we control the whole stack? A true audio desktop, with audible animations. No need to spend $1099 for the most high quality screen reader and OS. being able to put Linux on the [Optima laptop](https://www.orbitresearch.com/product/optima/) upcoming laptop, and have everything open, from the metal to the GUI. Just a dream of mine, and I'm not a developer so can't do much to bring it to life, but it definitely would be nice, and the desktop environment is about the biggest thing that can be made better in order to fulfil this. I'm telling y'all, we're ready for something better than Windows and Mac. Note that I'm just one person, and don't speak for every blind person and definitely don't speak for every disabled person. There are blind people and especially partially sighted people that love Windows and Apple and Android.