Re: [orca-list] A good laptop for linux

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Dell and Lenovo offer laptops with Linux pre-installed, as does System76.

You'll probably have to reinstall - or at least reconfigure them to get 
Orca running as you want it, however, unless you're very lucky and 
everything runs straight away from the preinstalled system.

The European Accessibility Act comes into force later this decade, and 
requires computers and operating systems to meet accessibility 
standards. I suspect this will have effects not only in Europe but 
globally. The risk of not being permitted to sell products/services to 
the European common market is surely a major economic incentive for 
hardware and software vendors, including, potentially, Linux distributors.


On 8/21/20 1:51 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> You may do better downloading and installing the Firmware-Debian iso
> since that has many wifi adapters already available to you.
> If you want a Linux Laptop out of the box on which you specify which
> version of Linux gets installed, thinkpenguin.com can help you with
> that.
>
> On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Cory Samaha via orca-list wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 12:13:43
> > From: Cory Samaha via orca-list <orca-list gnome org>
> > Reply-To: Cory Samaha <csamaha86 gmail com>
> > To: Orca List <orca-list gnome org>
> > Subject: [orca-list] A good laptop for linux
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am not sure if this is considered off topic. If so, please flog me with a stick or something. :) I began 
> > playing with Linux again about a month ago. I only had my Mac computer with virtualization software. It 
> > became apparent to me that if I wanted to start getting serious about learning and regularly using Linux that 
> > I would probably need something better than just virtualization software. I tried to resurrect my mom?s old 
> > Windows 7 laptop for this purpose and wanted to install Debian Mate. Unfortunately, this didn?t bring me much 
> > luck, as it wouldn?t recognize the wifi adapter. In Windows device manager there are about four network 
> > adapters that seem to refer to wifi - an intel centrino adapter, intel wimax adapter and some Microsoft Wifi 
> > adapter bridge. Yes, you can probably tell that this computer is quite old. Of course the Cintrino line from 
> > Intel has been discontinued, and I doubt a linux driver ever existed anyway. In any case, I didn?t know if 
> > anyone had some suggestions
>   for a good laptop. All I really need is for the hardware, including sound and networking to work properly. 
> Seems like System76 is a popular Linux computer brand. I have also heard of Purism, a company that takes 
> privacy into consideration which I appreciate. Of course, I could just go with a regular Dell or HP setup and 
> hope everything works. I know at least Dell has a configuration that they advertise works with Linux. 
> Basically I want to be able to run something like Debian, and occasionally boot into Tails. I?m not sure if 
> anyone has any thoughts. As I said, if this is off topic I do apologize in advance. But, I would appreciate 
> any contributions if anyone has them. Thank you so much in advance.
> > Kind Regards,
> > Cory
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