Re: [orca-list] Taking the plunge --- well sort of

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi

You're in for a treat with ubuntu. They have one of the nicest 
installers around. You don't need to do any manual partitioning, the 
installer will do all of this for you. You can of course if you're 
particular about sizes and such, but the installer will do it for you 
automatically and handle the extremely difficult (not really) task of 
getting grub to play nice with windows. Actually, grub plays just fine 
with windows, and windows no longer throws a fit if multiple operating 
systems are on a drive like it used to. There's still a theoretical risk 
for loss of data but I have never, not once, lost anything and I've been 
using linux since the installers were far less friendly. I'm not sure 
about the keyboard shortcuts, I thought that screen was inaccessible. 
But you don't need to read the shortcuts screen if you turn on orca's 
... oh what's it called ... read object nemonics I believe it's called? 
That's a fancy way of saying read object,  (button, menu) shortcuts. If 
you're new to orca, turn on tutorial messages, at least until you get 
sick of them. As for which is better, ubuntu or debian ... that mostly 
depends on how new you like your software. Also, and I could be wrong 
about this, but I don't believe debian has an accessible graphical 
installer. If I'm wrong please feel to correct me if there are debian 
users hear, but I believe the only way to install it, at least 
accessibly, is to use a cli with speakup. But they do make this easy to 
do so I have to give them props for that. And the debian a11y team is 
extremely active and passionate, so you can't go wrong with either.

Thanks

Kendell Clark


On 12/28/18 5:03 PM, James via orca-list wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
> Well I am a step closer to making the almost full time switch to Linux.
>
>
> I have created a bootable USB of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. However, I am 
> wondering if Ubuntu MATE or Debian would be a better choice to begin 
> with. I have figured out how to read HTML help with Orca but not how 
> to read the keyboard shortcuts for Gedit. Using object navigation (if 
> that is the correct term for Orca's numberpad functionality) yields no 
> results.
>
>
> Anyway, next step is to partition my drives as I  will still ned 
> Windows for work. Looking forward to the journey.
>
>
> Thanks and best wishes
>
> James
>
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