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



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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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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