Re: [orca-list] what distro for orca?

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Al,

I have a laptop here where the sound card gets muted. I don't know why 
because the same versions of Ubuntu work fine on my other two computers 
without muting the sound cards. So I don't think it is a Linux thing, 
but some bug or issue related to your sound card.

As for rpm and yum I ran Fedora quite regularly up until 2008 or so when 
I decided to switch to Ubuntu. Even then I would usually put Fedora on 
at least one Linux box, but do to the issue of getting Fedora installed 
I found it too much of a hassle to continue using it. So went straight 
Ubuntu from 2010 on.

As far as Arch's documentation I've found it first rate. Just this week 
I found myself looking at their documentation for a question I had and 
sure enough they had the answer in their documentation, and I couldn't 
find it in the Ubuntu wiki. So it helps to look in more than one place 
as often if one distributions docs don't have an answer someone else's 
distribution may have it documented somewhere.

Cheers!

On 6/3/2012 9:25 AM, Albert Sten-Clanton wrote:
> Thomas, thanks for your comments.  I'm something of an Arch Linux fan,
> having run it for a year or so before banging my head on a problem I didn't
> know how to solve except by reinstalling.  I used several releases of the
> speakup-modified Fedora versions, and I like rpm and yum somewhat better
> than the comparable Debian tools, but that seems a lifetime ago, and there
> were problems enough.  When sound cards started getting muted, apparently
> early in 2010 if my experience is any guide, I could find no way to try new
> Ubuntu releases; but for its volume_keys script and the instructions for
> using it, I couldn't have used Vinux these days, either.  For a time, GRML
> was my very good buddy off and on, and it still can be if I screw up the
> hard drive.
>
> Right now, I'm using Vinux 3.2.  You're right about the software lag time,
> and there's at least another quirk or two that gets in the way regularly,
> but it serves for the moment.  I may take Ubuntu on the new machine,
> primarily because the guy at the store seems to know more about that than
> other Linux flavors.  I like Arch's rolling release approach and its
> simplicity, and the documentation is generally good, but it, too, had
> limitations that could get downright annoying.  (I left it behind a few
> montyhs ago because I couldn't get Orca to talk with gnome 3, not even
> trying the suggestions for disabling Pulseaudio.) The Fedora folks seem to
> have little concern for accessibility, so I have some incentive to stay away
> from Fedora -- and maybe sell my Red Hat stock.  :-)
>
> Well, thanks again, and sorry if that's more than you'd care to know.
>
> Al