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

["chaltain outlook com" <chaltain outlook com>]

Lots of good information here. My only input would be that desktops offer a lot more than eye candy. There 
are plenty of good reasons to use a desktop, for both the blind and the sighted, that go beyond just the 
visual appearance.

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Christopher (AKA CJ)
Chaltain at Outlook

> -----Original Message-----
> From: orca-list <orca-list-bounces gnome org> On Behalf Of Jude DaShiell
> Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2020 2:46 PM
> To: Daniel McGee <danielmcgee134 gmail com>; orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Ubuntu, Mint and there flavors. What's the difference
> between all of them?
>
> 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?
> >
> >
> > Hello all
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> > The first thing, Ubuntu VS Mint. What?s the difference? Are these what they
> call distros?
> > 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.
> > 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?
> > Sorry for the long post but I would like to understand this.
> >
> >
> >
> > With kind regards
> >
> >
> >
> > Daniel
>
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