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Dream come true yesterday!

I got to talk to a packed room of normal (non technical people) at the local library about how important it is to upcycle computers, and how Linux can save the world in this respect.

Thanks to all the people who showed up, supported, donated laptops and listened. We even gave away 9 free laptops at the event.

Library said it was the most well attended event they've had! So will be many more of these in the future. :)

#nixos #Linux #Cosmic #system76

Nerd in a cosmic shirt with NixOS on display behind me giving a talk
#linux #NixOS #system76 #cosmic

I didn’t plan to write about Wayland yet. But Xorg is dying — not eventually, but now. GNOME’s dropping X11 support. RHEL already removed it. Ubuntu and Fedora are next. And if you rely on accessibility, you don’t get to wait this one out.
So here’s Post 4 of I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back.
I’m using Wayland now. Primarily. Not because I love it. Because the fallback is disappearing, and I want to be there helping fix what comes next. GNOME with Orca actually works. KDE and COSMIC are making progress. I’ve talked to the people involved. They care.
But a lot is broken.
MATE — the desktop most blind users preferred — isn’t on Wayland.
ocrdesktop doesn’t work. xdotool is gone.
wlroots compositors still don’t reliably support Orca’s keybindings, especially on laptops.
This isn’t GNOME’s fault. They’re the only reason accessibility on Wayland works at all.
But the old excuses are gone. “Just use Xorg” isn’t going to be an option much longer.
So yeah. I’m a Wayland shill now. Because I’m using it. Because I have to.
And I want to make sure we’re not excluded from what comes next.
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w…
#Linux #Wayland #Accessibility #Orca #GNOME #KDE #COSMIC #FOSS #a11y #BlindTech #xorg

I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 4 – Wayland Is Growing Up. And Now We Don’t Have a Choice — fireborn

fireborn.mataroa.blog
#a11y #Accessibility #linux #foss #gnome #KDE #Wayland #orca #cosmic #blindtech #xorg

google translate alternative: DeepL, it works much much better! I use it to translate #Cosmic desktop apps from English to Dutch.
#cosmic

#COSMIC is not even out of alpha and there's lots of #accessibility features already available!

There's more work to be done, for sure, but this is a very nice to see!

#Accessibility #cosmic

I just sent patches to port #COSMIC to #AlpineLinux[1], so it'll soon[2] be possible to install this promising new DE on a few of the hundreds of ARM and x86 things that #postmarketos supports!

1) gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/…

2) gitlab.postmarketos.org/postma…

Photo of the COSMIC desktop environment running on my ARM-based thinkpad x13s

Draft: Add COSMIC desktop environment (!80719) · Merge requests · alpine / aports · GitLab

This adds the COSMIC DE from system76. I only enabled x86_64 and aarch64 for now, since that's all I've tested. Quick note on the weird pkgver/_upstreamver...
GitLab
#postmarketos #alpinelinux #cosmic

For eight years Fedora has been shipping GNOME with a broken screen reader!

EIGHT YEARS!

(Wayland has been default on Fedora for eight years – since Fedora 25, released in 2016.)

And a hundred-billion-dollar corporation like IBM ships operating systems today based on it with a broken screen reader.

What is an ableist culture? One in which the people who call this out get ostracised.

#ableism #fedora #redHat #IBM #gnome #cosmic #wayland #a11y #system76 #linux fosstodon.org/@soller/11264637…

Jeremy Soller 🦀 (@soller@fosstodon.org)

I am unfollowing @aral@mastodon.ar.al. No matter my disagreements with GNOME folks in the past, COSMIC and GNOME are going to end up with the same accessibility backend, @accesskit, developed by the amazing @matt@toot.cafe.
Fosstodon
#a11y #linux #gnome #fedora #redhat #system76 #ibm #Wayland #ableism #cosmic

This is kinda a technology preview in order to see if we can ship features like this enabled by default in a lot more apps in the ecosystem.

Thus I'd be very super happy if you'll try it on lots of hardware - be Intel/AMD laptops or ARM64 devices (with V4L2 stateless decoders, such as most #LinuxMobile devices).

Chances that you really hit a zero-copy path are highest with a recent #Wayland compositor - i.e. if you are using #GNOME46, #kde6 or a recent version of #sway, #weston, #cosmic etc.

#Wayland #linuxmobile #gnome46 #weston #sway #kde6 #cosmic

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