Re: [orca-list] Voxin 1.14: Your opinion?

[Jace Kattalakis <khalfang1366 gmail com>]

Hella OT reply but...

1. My thoughts on blind specific distros:

Is it a waste of time? Yes and no.

Yes, for somebody like me who knows how to set up Ubuntu Mate and knows 
what I want to install, or knows how to use Arch to set up asystem how I 
want.


No, because I can absolutely get there's people out there who want a 
fully accessible system out of the box.

THat being said, I like the idea of blind specific distros. I don't like 
how they are executed though. I feel if anything they focus too much on 
the 'for the blind only' idea and, in at least one case, I've had 
sighted people comment that my laptop treated them with Vinux, like a 
drooling idiot who couldn't do anything. That being said that's merely 
one sighted person, and again I get both sides of the debate but I'd 
personally, and this is merely my opinion, grab Mate, and set up my own 
system from scratch rather than relying on somebody else's preinstalled 
packages and their idea of what a blind person needs in a distro.


2. I read up Sonarr merged with Vinux, so are both projects effectively 
MIA at this point?


On 04/06/18 17:18, John G. Heim wrote:
> You know, Kyle, a lot of people think it is a waste of time and 
> resources to develop custom linux distros for the blind, like vinux. 
> How would you like it if somebody came on this list and tried to put 
> pressure on you to stop? I don't remember who initiated contact but 
> when Jonathan Nadeau was working on Sonar linux, I offered him the 
> entire resources of the International Association Of Visually Impaired 
> Technologists. Personally, I can see valid points on either side of 
> the blind-distro issue. But at the very least, I knew it was not my 
> place to tell Jonathan how to use his time. I don't know what you are 
> trying to accomplish here but you are way out of line.
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> On 06/02/2018 08:48 PM, Kyle wrote:
> > But there is already a free replacement that sounds not as good, but 
> > better. It just needs improvements for non-English languages, and for 
> > that, it needs native speakers. These improvements are in fact 
> > happening with espeak-ng; I see them every few days. In any case, it 
> > is far easier to send bug reports and feature requests to the 
> > developers of software that is being actively maintained and is 
> > constantly improving than it is to try to keep something working that 
> > is broken beyond repair, is impossible to maintain and can't be 
> > improved or even patched enough to prevent instability.
> > Imetumwa kutoka nyota
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