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Re: [orca-list] Advice from blind Linux users

While gnome does use more memory than mate, in most cases this is not much, and it is far from a memory hog 
in my experience, and according to test data 
I've seen on line. 
This experience is from older releases of gnome, but far from ancient ones, and as far as I know gnome has 
not greatly changed its memory use profile. 
Of course ones mileage can vary. 
Unity uses much more memory on average than gnome, again acording to a couple independent tests I've read and 
my personal experience. 
I've never tried cinamun, and last I heard it still needs more work than the other interfaces mentioned. 
XFCE is still lioghter than mate, at least for the majority of users, but its panels are not accessible, and 
one should change file managerr for decent 
usability with speech, and then LXDE is still lighter, but woith the same panel issue.
Bottm line, mate is a bit thriftier with RAM than gnome, and quite a bit more so than unity. Mate uses less 
CPU on average than the others, but everything 
I say depends on a more or less standard configuration. 
You can look up developers suggested minimum  hardware requirments, but remember that we need more memory and 
processor to run our accessibility software. 
You can't use wine with orca, but self voicing programs can use sapi voices with wine, e.g. some games, stand 
alone text reading apps, etc.
Each interface has advangtages and disadvantages depending on user tastes and workinig styhle. 
There have been many discussions of these, and I really do not want to start repeating everything that has 
already been said here. 
Please consider searching this list's archives for info.
There are also ultra lightweight options that require a bit more set up, e.g. fluxbox and ratpoison. 
All but unity will run better and faster for most people on a given machjine as compared to win7, and Unity 
is comparible. 
OK, better is perhaps subjective, but I am mostly referring to responsiveness. 
Linux is very good at taking good advantage of memory, so the more RAM you have  the better, at least to a 
point. 
I'd not recommend unity in general for machines with less than 2GB of RAM, but I did not have problems as 
long  as I limited multitasking with 1GB omn a 32 
bit machine. 
Any of the desktiops will run well with 2 or more cores and 3GB or more of RAM.
Vinux5 lets you try all threee desktops on the same installation out of the box.
It also has good Command line console accessibility. You do need to run one commmand to start it, or it can 
be set up to auto start at boot time with 
little work.
   
 


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  Jude DaShiell wrote:
Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 09:47:35AM -0400


Unity; gnome, or mate and cinnamon are possibilities depending on the memory
footprint and hard drive space available on a particular machine.
  Mate and cinnamon are good for minimal spaces gnome is a hog in memory and
disk space.  I don't know where unity lands on the spectrum though. More
work for accessibility needs doing to get mint cinnamon accessible.

On Fri, 21 Oct 2016, Sam Lay wrote:


Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 05:41:35
From: Sam Lay <sam_p_lay protonmail com>
To: orca-list <orca-list gnome org>
Subject: [orca-list] Advice from blind Linux users

Hello all!

I'm interested in any advice for a blind person switching from Windows 7 and nvda to Linux and orca. I'm 
interested in all recommendations but especially answers to the following:

Which desktop will work best with orca? My research indicates that unity, gnome and mate are best, while 
xfce doesn't work so well. Which of these three is most highly recommended for orca?

How can I get the best results out of orca with regards to speech quality? Is it possible for sapi / 
nuance Daniel to connect to orca via wine? And if so, are there step-by-step instructions anywhere to do 
this?

Answers to these, or any general advice about Linux for blind users, would be hugely appreciated.

Sam


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