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I've tried desktop #Linux as a #blind many times.
It was #Ubuntu, #debian, #archlinux, and even some "for blind" things based on Debian or Arch.
And every attempt was accompanied with such phrases like "come on, friend, you can do the same as on Windows! Accessibility had become much better since your last try!"
Okay, I spend several days configuring things, and... No, thanks!
"You can play games on Linux" they say. But they play only Stardew Valley and Factorio. Or they play on a Windows vm.
"There are no problems with accessibility" they say. But they are used to switching from gui to terminal and back to solve simple every day tasks.
"No no, drivers are okay" they also say... But they stay silent about hours spent on forums finding solutions and looking for components which have known good drivers for Linux.
"#Orca behaves just like #NVDA!" - but you will spend days and weeks configuring it to behave like NVDA.

But I still try because I love Linux.

#accessibility #a11y

in reply to Cyrmax

Is the raspberry pi500 a way to try this again, do you think? I remember there was a fuss about the 400 not having a headphone jack but this seems to be fixed.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo
I've never used Raspberry, never seen these micro pc and of course never tried desktop linux on them.
For me it would be very interesting experience too, but I'd look for some cheaper alternatives as raspberry developers now take your money just because this is raspberry, not for high specs and cool features.
Btw I know there is raspbian, which is a debian for raspberry, I know there exists some fork of Ubuntu for micro pc, but is there a known and well-documented way to install arch?
IDK. If you do so, then share your experience please.
in reply to Cyrmax

Sorry, no idea. I use Pi's a lot for headless work but I've never considered it a desktop OS.