Hi, my friend Kyle, I bet that just trying Slint (not Slackware) can change your opinion about it <smile>. It you succeed breaking it, please let me know how, so I know what I should enhance and/of fix! Cheers, Didier -- Didier Spaier Slint maintainer Le 16/01/2022 à 17:42, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : > Slint is essentially Slackware with a few modifications. I broke Slackware > several times, which is actually why I left it early on. It was my first > experience with Linux, but I wouldn't say it was my most enjoyable experience. I > eventually broke things on purpose in other distributions in order to learn how > to fix them, and I guess I can thank Slackware for that LOL. I actually found > Red Hat, which became Fedora, to be one of the easiest to use out of the box, > and it is kept updated better than Ubuntu, which is arguably one of the easiest > of all to use overall. Actually, Arch is great once you get it going, but there > is a lot that can break while you're installing, so I don't recommend it for > people who just want to see what things look like. My personal recommendations > for seeing what things look like and how well they work right out of the box > would be either Fedora Live Workstation > > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/35/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-35-1.2.iso > > > or the version I personally use: Fedora Mate Compiz > > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/35/Spins/x86_64/iso/Fedora-MATE_Compiz-Live-x86_64-35-1.2.iso > > > Both of these include the Orca screen reader on the iso itself. Workstation > allows you to press alt+super+s to start Orca on the desktop, and MATE-Compiz > starts it by pressing alt+f2 and entering > > orca > > in the run window that pops up. Either way, the installer is fairly easy to use, > and I have successfully installed both to a hard drive and to a USB thumb drive > without breaking anything. You can of course "try before you buy," just like you > can with Ubuntu, meaning that you have full access to the system without > installing to anything at all, and then if you decide you do want to install, > you just start the installer and set it up according to your needs. > > > That said, Fedora and Ubuntu both have very large and helpful user bases, and > community support is far easier to get when you need help. Ubuntu probably has > the largest user base of all, and this is a good thing for those people who are > getting started. I cannot overestimate the benefit of broad and diverse > community support, and both Fedora and Ubuntu offer such support owing to their > large numbers of users and their willingness to help each other. So based on > this alone, I would recommend either Fedora or Ubuntu over just about anything > else, and Fedora is my personal choice due to its frequent software updates even > in a release. > > ~Kyle > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-lsst mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list