Re: [orca-list] laptop recommendations

[Maksym Bilak <bmiv ukr net>]

Hi Nick, All.

I can confirm everything you wrote.
The only thing I would like to add is that Fedora has one problem that 
does not apply to Accessibility. I was not able to install 
"python-tesserwrap" (it's needed for such great things as "ocrdesktop" 
and "ocrpdf" that Chrys made).
Also - in my opinion, in Fedora there are a few drawbacks; But I will 
not describe them, since this is only relevant for those with slow internet.

Nick Wood wrote:
> 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.
>
> >
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