Re: Accessibility of installing Distros?

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The issue is that it's already on a desktop, usually Mate.

If I install it again, I'm installing it console only, and then building it as I see fit, which would be with ratpoison only.

Will probably go to Arch directly anyway. Why get something that, firstly speaks with a Screen reader I never bothered to learn, since Speakup works well enough for my needs, secondly speaks so darn fast no human can understand the thing, especially if, like me you can hardly hear anything anymore anyway?

I can build my system in vanilla Arch as well as with anything else. I, for example wouldn't install Firefox at all, but probably one of the Chromium based browsers plus elinks for when I'm beeing lazy and want to stay on a console.

Warm regards,

Brandt Steenkamp

Sent from the Slint console using Alpine

On Fri, 18 Feb 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 13:41:19 -0500
From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Accessibility of installing Distros?

Have you tried running startx to turn orca on?  You may find that works.


On Fri, 18 Feb 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

Sometimes it would finish the install, then reboot, and come up speaking with
Fenrir with a very annoying voice, especially if you, like me is legally
deafblind, then after typing your username and password, Fenrir would just die
and you are stuck, I know it's a desktop environment, but nothing turns orca
on.


So much for an accessible distro.


This is why I love Slint. It does exactly what "you", tell it to do, not the
dev.


No disrespect to Mr. Nash, I'm sure he's a perfectly nice guy, not that I've
ever spoken to him though.

Warm regards,

Brandt Steenkamp

Sent from the Slint machine using Thunderbird

On 2022/02/18 17:10, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Makes at least two of us.  The installer always found itself looping and
> repeating failed package retrieval.
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> Dave
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> On 2/17/22 13:12, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>> I could never get Jenux to work correctly on my setup.
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