Re: [orca-list] Looking for a good Windows-like Ubuntu

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

No, I am pretty sure he's already tried gnome, and I'm as sure as I can be with out being iin his head that 
kind of 
interface is far from what he wants/means by windows like.
There's no windows clone interface that is accessible as far as I know, and honestly you will start being 
happier when you 
stop trying to put the equivalent of a garage door on a teepee, or visaversa...point is there are good  
menu-driven 
interfaces that will give an experience that should give one's brain elements that are close enough to 
windows xp that 
they will quickly get used to what's different, atnd hopefully let them quickly see where the Linux 
interface/experience 
has improved on what was a good model. 
I'm specifically talking about the Mate desktop. 
The latest Mate package-versions are needed to get the good accessible experience, so you will need something 
like whapt 
Thomas is talkiing about as your starting point. 
Ubuntu-gnome also has the advantage of perhaps needing a few packages on the default image that you will 
likely want to 
keep and use with mate once installed.
For fairly detailed instructions on installation and accessible configuration of mate on Ubuntu go to the 
vinux wiki
http://wiki.vinuxproject.org/mate_install
and note that Ubuntu trusty is refferenced at the bottom of the article in the other distros section.
All of the instructions except for what ppa to add are the same as in the main article. 
To make it even easier I put that ppa here below.
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/archive/1.8/ubuntu trusty main"
Then 
sudo apt-get update
and follow the instructions as to which packages to install and the commands to run to get things talking out 
of the box.
The one thing I don't think I added in the article yet is that orca should auto start for most folks using 
the new 1.8 
packages. There were issues that made many people need to manually start orca each boot with earlier versions.
 

On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 08:28:18AM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hi Glenn,
>
> My suggestion is try Ubuntu Gnome. Its basically Ubuntu 14.04.1 with
> the Gnome desktop. It is very accessible, and I think what you'd be
> happiest with at this point. You can get it from
> http://www.ubuntugnome.com
> and burn the iso to cd/dvd as with the regular Ubuntu release.
>
> HTH
>
>
>
>
> On 8/16/14, Glenn <glennervin cableone net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I tried Mint, and it seems indeed inaccessible.
> > I tried Zorin, and although that is promising, it lacks stability with Orca
> >
> > from my experience.
> > Does anyone know how I can get a good Windows-like Ubuntu?
> > Glenn
> >
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