Re: [orca-list] laptop recommendations

[Nick Wood <nick microlitesoftware co uk>]

Hi,

I can't recommend any up to date hardware as my own laptop is about 4 
years old, so I too would be interested to know what latest generation 
hardware works well if anyone has any recommendations.

However, I can tell you what works for me regarding Linux and 
accessibility in general:

I chose Fedora as my distribution.  I found the Debian/Ubuntu flavours 
weren't quite bleeding edge enough for me, which is important with all 
the advances in accessibility stacks. Yes you can add extra PPA's to 
update bits but I just preferred the cleaner approach of having a more 
modern setup overall.
Arch was a little bit too bleeding edge for me.  There are plenty of 
users on here who use Arch and have no issues with it, but for me Fedora 
was a nice middle ground between Ubuntu and Arch.

I don't use Speakup, but as far as Orca goes it is very actively 
developed, as you will find if you stick around on this list.

I now use Linux (Fedora) with Orca as my main machine for my day job, 
and spin up Windows virtual machines inside VMWare for the parts of my 
job that require Windows.

It is a setup that (generally) works very well for me, as a totally 
blind user.

HTH,

Nick



On 01/09/17 07:03, Blee Blat wrote:
> As the subject says, is there particularly well-supported hardware that will run Linux. It's been awhile 
> since  I've looked at this. What is the current state of things? I'd stopped using it a bit ago, because it 
> looked like Speakup and Orca weren't being well maintained but I'd like to run this again. I'm not really 
> happy with the current setup. I don't mind a lot of configuration or playing around with things either. I'll 
> probably run  arch or similar. What are people using full time with reasonable success? I figure now is a 
> good time to ask since I'm looking for new hardware. Thanks for any information you might have.

>