Re: [orca-list] Ubuntu, Mint and there flavors. What's the difference between all of them?

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

Ubuntu and Mint are two different distros and both of them have Debian
as their parent.
Mate; gnome, cinnamon, kde xfce lxde budgey all are different desktops
that can be installed on these distros so you can run them.  Desktops
are the eye candy not the ear candy.  Accessibility stacks where
available are additions to those desktops and provide us some useful
features to operate those computers.
No way exists to describe any of this by comparison to windows or mac
since windows and mac had only a series of distros each with a set of
closed options for desktop installations.  Linux gives you choices
beyond windows and mac.
The two top desktop choices for accessibility are mate then gnome.
Xfce and Lxde are available though not top choices yet.
Cinnamon may be below lxde and xfce.
KDE isn't a choice now since no kde install iso that can get
accessibility enabled for install and post-install exists and I don't
expect that to happen in our lifetimes either.
Below desktop managers, we got display managers like Xwindows, icewm,
stump-wm blackbox, metacity and wayland, actually now I think of it
budgey may be a display manager.
Most of these haven't got any accessibility features to recommend them
wayland along with plymouth has or continues to have trouble in this
respect and most of the developers of much of this eye candy either
haven't heard of accessibility yet or aren't interested in writing code
to support it.  Usually when the developers find they can't get their
eye candy into government contracts due to missing accessibility the
developers then get religion.

On Sun, 20 Dec 2020, Daniel McGee via orca-list wrote:

> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 10:16:43
> From: Daniel McGee via orca-list <orca-list gnome org>
> Reply-To: Daniel McGee <danielmcgee134 gmail com>
> To: "orca-list gnome org" <orca-list gnome org>
> Subject: [orca-list] Ubuntu,
>     Mint and there flavors. What's the difference between all of them?
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> Hello all
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> Since I am new to Linux, I have been trying to get my head around something that I hope you good folks 
> could explain in order that I can understand further.
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> The first thing, Ubuntu VS Mint. What?s the difference? Are these what they call distros?
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> Secondly, What?s the difference between the families of: Ubuntu and Mint?  mint-cinnamon, mint-mate, and 
> mint. Also ubuntu and ubuntu-mate. Are these still called distros? Or are they different
> flavors now. If anyone could explain using Windows or Mac as a comparison, I think that will make a whole 
> lot more sense to me.
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> Finally, when it all comes down to it, with all the above choices, is it purely a visual / sighted thing 
> and not blindness related at all?
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> Sorry for the long post but I would like to understand this.
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> With kind regards
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> Daniel

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