Re: is ubuntu good?

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I'd move heaven and earth to avoid asking for sighted assistance. But I'll admit that attitude is somewhat irrational. The only justification for it is that I am president of the International Association of Visually Impaired Technologists and it's important for me to know if there is any way possible to get something done. But that's really just a rationalization. Really it's just stubbornness.
On 08/19/2015 04:06 AM, Tony Baechler wrote:
You are very lucky.  I wish I could get sighted help whenever I want.  I
guess I would rather have the dignity of being able to do the install by
myself and knowing that I did it without help.  Just because I'm blind
doesn't mean that I shouldn't have the right to do my own install.  I
should be able to install and use any operating system exactly the same
as the sighted community.  That's why I don't use FreeBSD anymore.  It
can't be installed without either sighted help or a serial console.
Then again, maybe you don't mind having someone do it for you.

You have to use a graphical installer because that's what Ubuntu uses.
I think Fedora does as well.  The alternative install doesn't seem to be
supported anymore and doesn't seem to come with Speakup modules, but I
could be wrong on this.  Besides, you don't get accessibility settings
already configured if you don't do the install with Orca running.

On 8/18/2015 10:10 AM, Ari Moisio wrote:
Hi

Is there some special reason you have to use graphical installer?

I have personally found it easier to have a sighted assistant while
installing. He/she does not have to understand much about Linux, only
read
the screen and do what i tell to do:-)


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