Re: [orca-list] Accessible distros

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

I believe the questions related to sufficient resources to host virtual
machines.

Orca screen reader developers writes:
> Hi
>
> As someone who dual boots myself, I’ll grant you that. I’m not tha anti windows person Kyle has been known 
> to be, I’m more … neutral. Windows can work well in some circumstances and Linux well in others. As for 
> which is better, more efficient, if we started that hear it would probably turn into a fight. And a 
> university probably has lots of good reasons why it must use multiple operating systems. Myself I find open 
> source operating systems remarkably well complete in functionality. There are few things it cannot do, 
> while windows has it’s set of things it does well. If Linux has a disadvantage it is in it’s communities, 
> who tend to be spread out,  and usually interested only in whatever earns them profit or whatever projects 
> they contribute code to. Windows is largely opaque unless you work at Microsoft, so I don’t really know how 
> it operates.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kendell Clark
>
>
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> ________________________________
> From: John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu>
> Sent: Monday, December 3, 2018 1:12:47 PM
> To: kendell clark; orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Accessible distros
>
> As someone who manages dozens of dual-boot machines for the University
> Of Wisconsin-Madison, I think you guys are greatly exaggerating the
> difference between Win7 and linux. Win7 anddebian stretch/mate are about
> the same. Ubuntu bionic and Win 10 are about the same.
>
>
> On 12/3/18 11:47 AM, kendell clark via orca-list wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I’m with kyle on this one. On a machine like this, a more resource
> > friendly desktop, like mate, or gnome flashback, if that’s what it’s
> > called these days will work wonders. Ubuntu mate is an option although
> > I’m not sure how resource efficient their inidicator stuff is, although
> > it’s probably much better than any windows version, which tends to pack
> > every possible feature one could possibly need, most of them meaning
> > nothing to most users into an installation.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Kendell Clark
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *From:* orca-list <orca-list-bounces gnome org> on behalf of Kyle via
> > orca-list <orca-list gnome org>
> > *Sent:* Monday, December 3, 2018 11:25:32 AM
> > *To:* orca
> > *Subject:* Re: [orca-list] Accessible distros
> > John G Heim via orca-list aliandika:
> > > You'd have to run Win7.  For people like me who absolutely have to run Windows
> > > once in a great while, Win7 is the answer.
> > I pity the person who has to run even 7 on such a machine. I upgraded
> > the OS on
> > a similar machine that was running 7. Took somewhere around 5 to 7
> > minutes just
> > to boot up. As resource intensive as it can be, GNOME was a huge
> > improvement on
> > that machine. But I still wouldn't run anything virtualized on it. Your
> > best bet
> > on a machine like this is to run a dual-boot configuration.
> > Imetumwa kutoka hali ya hewa
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-- 

Janina Sajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:       http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures        http://www.w3.org/wai/apa