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

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

I wouldn't buy a Dell for love or money!  I know too much about what and
how they make their equipment and their website is no good either.
What's worse their customer service is horrid.  I had one of those
machines before I learned how and with what they were built and the
experience was not good and that's how I found about their customer
service and their website.  When you spend a few hours for 8 years each
week taking computers apart to harvest useable parts, you learn about
corporate sins fast.

On Sun, 23 Aug 2020, Jason White wrote:

> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 15:03:42
> From: Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>
> To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>,
>     Cory Samaha via orca-list <orca-list gnome org>
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] A good laptop for linux
>
> 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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> > > 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

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