Re: [orca-list] Considering moving to Linux Ubuntu from macOS

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

There is a lot of good help to be found googleing to learn your way around Linux, and this comes both as 
distro agnostic refference material that might 
explain in detail what goes on under the hood and as distro specific step by step guides, (howtos), that will 
give a list of commands and or 
actions 
with or with out explanations as to how things work.
There is probably more help for Ubuntu than any single other distro, but there are many how-tos that give 
examples for fedora and other red hat family 
distros. 
There are IRC channels for Talking -Arch, and Vinux where accessibility is one of the main topics  and most 
users are blind. 
The vinux google-group/mailing list is a great friendly resource, and there is a sonar list, a Debian 
accessibility list, Ubuntu-accessibility, just to 
name a few other resources. 
The Vinux Wiki has articles that can help you get up to speed. There is also a mailing list that deals with 
accessiblity for Libreoffice.
If you use social media you will find talking-arch and Vinux groups as well as a vinux fan-page.
         F123 is another Linux distro optimized for blind users, and there are support mailing lists in 
English Portuguese and Spanish for F123, and it has 
an IRC channel too.



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     B.H.
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  Janina Sajka via orca-list wrote:
Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 06:34:14PM -0500

> Looking again at your requirements ...
>
> Alonzo cuellar writes:
> > On 11/18/2016 9:47 AM, James AUSTIN wrote:
> > > ...
> > > Bibliography
> > >
> > > I keep a bib latex file managed through Bibdesk for searching. Is there anything similar for Linux?
>
>
> Yes, and very well supported by both emacs and vim. Again, this is not
> the graphical desktop, but the console approach on Linux.
>
>
> There's at least one list participant here who authored and documented
> their Ph.D. thesis using latex and bib.
>
> > > Device support
> > >
> > > I am writing this on an iPhone, is there any support for such devices on Linux?
>
> What do you mean by "support?" Certainly you can access the same email
> accounts on both platforms, and I'd wager there'd be no issue using ftp.
> But, what do you mean exactly?
> > > Every time I look at Linux I am attracted to Ubuntu. Is this the easiest distro for a newbie to start 
> > > with please?
>
> We all have our favorite distributions. Ask 10 people, and you're likely
> to get at least 11 opinions.
>
> My advice has ever been to start where you have a personal relationship
> that can help you over the learning curve. You need a buddy for best
> results. If you don't have a friend who can function that way for you,
> second best is to look at support resources available and see what
> others are using. You've started this already by asking on this list.
> Basically, you'll find that the Linux core is the same among all the
> distributions. The end user applications are also pretty much the same,
> e.g. LibreOffice is LibreOffice across all distros. The differences are
> most visible for tasks like package management and system
> updating/configuration.
>
> hth
>
> Janina
>
> > > Thanks for any advice and help, and apologies for the long post.
> > >
> > > Take care
> > > James
> > >
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPhone
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