Re: [orca-list] victory! Linux mint to ship orca by default

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
Well as said in my email, cinnamon still needs quite a bit of work, it's
definitely not ready for the average blind user yet. But clem is also
adding orca to the mate version, and that's a different story
altogether. I'm not completely sure what's so compelling about mint but
it is popular, so we should be able to use it just as effectively as the
sighted people do.
Thanks
Kendell clark


On 11/05/2015 04:32 AM, Tony Baechler wrote:
> Note that the following is only my own opinion based on what I've read
> and heard from someone who tried Mint.
>
> On 11/4/2015 5:41 PM, Glenn wrote:
> > What compelling features are there with Mint?
> > Seems like I was drawn to it a year or so ago, but I could not get Orca
> > working well on it.
> > I mean, can you let folks know what is good or different about Mint?
>
>
> Honestly, I don't see the "victory," but I have not personally tried it.
> It's based on either Ubuntu or Debian testing, so in my opinion, one
> would be better suited using one of those.  It ships an older kernel
> than Ubuntu and seems to have more hardware compatibility problems. 
> That might be why Orca didn't work for you.  The user I mentioned has an
> older HP with an AMD processor.  He tried several different versions of
> Mint, but none of them would install.  They all crashed as did Ubuntu
> MATE 14.04, but Ubuntu MATE 15.04 worked fine, presumably due to the
> newer kernel.  Ubuntu 14.04 ships kernel 3.13 while 15.04 ships 3.16 if
> that matters.  I don't know what Mint ships, but I would think it's
> probably 3.13 or earlier.  The Mint issues I mentioned were with
> versions 16 and 17.
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