[orca-list] slightly off topic: orca, espeakup and ubuntu 19.10

[Florian Beijers <florianbeijers gmail com>]

Hi all,

I have been away from desktop Linux for a long time and have a few
questions now I am diving back in. namely:

- When I was last involved with Ubuntu, it was during the Gnome 3
transition that made a lot of people ...not all that happy. I have
been keeping my ear to the ground to some degree and heard that Ubuntu
Mate is a good accessible option currently, so that is what i
installed on a VM. Was that a good choice?

- Around the same time, people really didn't like PulseAudio all that
much. Do they still not like PulseAudio all that much? :)
- I have been trying to get Speakup in the console to work, but am
running into a bit of an issue. The console speaks to me while logging
in, but then falls silent. Do i need to give some process extra
permissions?
- I am using Espeakup, I also hear a lot about speechd-up, is that the
preferred choice these days? Any docs on how to set this up properly?
:)

That's all I have for now :-) Thanks to anyone who can give me some direction :)