Hi all. I'm pretty new to Debian. I started with Arch Linux, since that's
what a lot of blind people I've been around use--the ones who use Linux
anyway--and I was able to use a good bit of it, but had a lot of
frustration with trying to set things up, like embossers, braille
translation, all that. Google Docs was also pretty painful to use. So now
I'm trying Debian, both because I've not really tried it before (since my
personal laptop has a Wi-fi driver that doesn't work with the image, both
free and non-free.
So, I got it to install on this computer (Intel NUC) although I don't think
the Wi-fi works, but I have Ethernet here so it's not that big of an issue.
Accessibility works, and I'm finding that, somehow, Mate is even more
accessible on Debian, with the Run dialog giving a lot more info that
before. Also Debian's accessibility Wiki is pretty encouraging that people
are working on its accessibility. I've also moved to Debian's "unstable"
packages, to get more like a rolling release.
So, I'm trying to start over with Linux in a better way, asking more
questions, and hopefully I'll have a better time with an actually helpful
distro and community. So, any tips or getting-started info?
Devin Prater
r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com
gemini://tilde.pink/~devinprater/
