Yes, I think slint would be a good distribution for you as a beginner if you select to start in console mode during the installation. The reason is even with mate and running mate-terminal the speech is less stable than with speakup and running in console gets you speakup and other screen reader packages that are more stable than orca. If you decide to go with slint, please do yourself a favor and subscribe to the slint email list. That's on freelists.org since that way you'll get operating-specific help and you're not the only one using slint with a screen reader on that list. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Wed, 12 Jul 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Good afternoon, > I am new to Linux & am currently using Mint 21.1, but keep loosing speech with Orca. > As a result, I may switch to Slint, which was recently recommended to me by a friend. > Before I do though, I'd like to get opinions from the members of this list as to whether or not this would be a good distribution for me, as a beginner? > > > Thanks, > Jessica Dail > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list 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