Re: [orca-list] Accessible distros

[Vojtěch šmiro <vsmiro seznam cz>]

Hello.


Is this enough?


Memory: 3,2 GiB
Proccessor: Intel® Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2140 @ 1.60GHz × 2
Graphic: NV4B

What screenreader do you use in VM Windows and what voice?


thanks.


Best regards


Vojta.

Dne 02. 12. 18 v 18:44 Nick Wood napsal(a):
> I tend to agree with Kyle and Christopher.
>
> Windows runs very well as a VM these days - just make sure you have a 
> decent CPU and enough RAM.
>
> I use Fedora as the host, with a range of Windows virtual machines 
> running using VMWare Workstation as I need Windows for work - and it 
> works very well.
>
> I love the fact that while Windows is busy doing Windows updates or 
> whatever it might be doing I can just switch back to Linux and carry 
> on being productive with other tasks.
>
> Linux is far from perfect - and I hate how Fedora can just drop a new 
> kernel version into the regular software updates which can completely 
> break VMWare - but overall I am very happy with my setup.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick
>
> On 02/12/2018 16:49, Christopher Chaltain via orca-list wrote:
> > When we ran Linux and Windows at work, this was about 15 years ago, 
> > we ran Windows at the host operating system and Linux in the virtual 
> > machine. We found that Windows liked to assume it had exclusive use 
> > of the hardware so it was more problematic getting it to run in a 
> > virtual machine. Linux, on the other hand, seemed to run much better 
> > and with fewer problems in the virtual machine.
> >
> >
> > Since then, for home use, I've run Linux on the bare metal and 
> > Windows in a virtual machine, and I found this to be satisfactory. Of 
> > course, I had to have the hardware resources to support this.
> >
> >
> > Bottom line is that I'd listen to Kyle.
> >
> >
> > On 12/2/18 8:42 AM, Kyle via orca-list wrote:
> > > If you must run a VM, I would always recommend running Linux as the 
> > > host and running your work VM on top of Linux. The Linux host is far 
> > > more stable, and it's much easier to roll back a VM that goes wonky 
> > > than it is to have to reinstall your host OS and potentially lose 
> > > the VM in the process.
> > >
> > > Regarding which distro to use, I think it's mostly personal 
> > > preference, as GNOME and MATE desktops are both quite accessible 
> > > using Orca. That said, I think Fedora Live Workstation is probably 
> > > your best bet, as you can just press alt_super_s to start Orca as 
> > > soon as the OS boots up. I no longer have an x86_64 machine to test 
> > > this, but the last time I did, the installer worked pretty well.
> > > ~Kyle
> > > _______________________________________________
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> > > Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> > > Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> > > GNOME Universal Access guide: 
> > > https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
> > > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
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