Hi Brandt,
When you will have used it long enough to answer, please say what you
prefer in Fedora 35 Mate Compiz than in Slint, and what you get in
Fedora but not in Slint. This could help find what we should add or do
better.
Best,
Didier
On 23/11/2021 20:10, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Hey Kyle,
Ok, at the moment I am on fedora 35, the Mate Compiz spin, which is not
giving me issues at this time.
I may give an upgrade to rawhide a go at some point, hopefully without
breaking the install, but, whatever, if you break it, fix the darn thing.
Warm regards,
Brandt Steenkamp
Sent from my Fedora Install using Thunderbird
On 2021/11/23 21:03, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
For the most part, even Debian testing isn't that great for desktop
users. Much of it is still older than Ubuntu, except maybe at the end
of the release cycle, and it tends to mix desktop component versions,
meaning for example that you could have some parts of GNOME 40 and
other parts of GNOME 3.38 at the same time. I found this phenomenon
occurring even in Debian experimental, which is supposed to be more
up-to-date even than unstable.
I've had the best luck using Fedora, as even the 6-month release cycle
has newer packages than Ubuntu, and many times software gets updated
to upstream current versions during the release cycle, which I haven't
seen with Ubuntu, and certainly not Debian. Of course you can always
either upgrade a stable Fedora release to Rawhide, which is the
rolling release version that never needs to go through the upgrade
process once you're there, or you could install the Rawhide iso, which
you just install and keep updated. This is not for everyone though, so
most people may feel more comfortable with the release cycle. But
either is a good choice for keeping your system updated with close to
the latest software and getting access to a wide variety of available
packages without having to do tons of manual setup work.
Solus is another option on some hardware, but I found that its version
of espeak made a rather odd growling sound when I tried it. Strangely,
I found this problem both on my bare metal and on a virtual machine,
and never was able to diagnose the problem. But you may have better
luck. I definitely liked how easy it was to go through the
installation process and get a system running.
I know some people who are using Void Linux, and it is said to be very
good, though I'm not familiar enough with it to give you any pointers
on how to set it up. Looks from what I've read like it will be
something closer to an Arch setup, although an xfce version is said to
be available. Not sure whether it has a full installer or if it needs
to be set up manually, although there is said to be an xfce version
available. If this version ships with Orca, you could possibly get an
install going fairly easily.
Over the years, I have had fairly long-term experience with Slackware,
Red Hat, which later became Fedora Core, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch and the
latest Fedora release and Rawhide, as well as short-term experience
with Mint, an Ubuntu derivative, Manjaro, an Arch hard fork, and
Solus, which stands apart because it is not derived from any other
distro, and my experiences with recent Fedora have been the best, with
the possible exception of Arch, which does work pretty well once you
get past the setup process.
~Kyle
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