No, installation is not hard. In fact if you want to talk hard
installations gentoo and archlinux come to mind.
Once you boot a slint iso, if speech can come up it will. You can turn
speech off if you don't need it or leave it on.
What slint hasn't got is gnome. When you install slint though you can
choose to run mate since that's already available and you can also
choose to run in a graphical environment on log in rather than console.
If you want to do virtual I can't help since I've never done that, but I
have slint on another drive and I boot up in console and when I want to
run graphical I use the startx script. The thing is by default for
console users orca is off but you run the orca-on script in a user
account and when you go graphical orca speaks.
How well speech will work with local languages I don't know since I
don't speak all of them and haven't tried out all of the language
configurations. The good thing about that is you're not on closed
source like windows but open source like linux so if something's broken
and you find it maybe letting the slint email list know about it might
find someone who can fix it.
If you choose to run screen reader on slint, the next questions are
country and language.
Good luck.
On Thu, 2 Jan 2020, Vojt?ch ?miro wrote:
> Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 06:56:21
> From: Vojt?ch ?miro <
vsm...@seznam.cz>
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> Subject: Re: VINUX-SUPPORT: Vinux 5.1 remove desktop icons
>
> Hello.
>
>
> I wanted to try Slint, but I am afraid of this distro, because slackware is
> really different from Ubuntu or Fedora and installation is hard too, I think.
>
>
> Best regards
>
>
> Vojta.
>
> Dne 02. 01. 20 v 2:09 Jean M napsal(a):
> > Hello David
> > It was very kind of you to respond to my question. In fumbling around with
> > Vinux I did noticed that Ubuntu has many later versions.? I'll now check out
> > Slint.
> > Your advice?is much appreciated.
> > <mailto:
dhof...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > There are others who can better help you, but since no one has
> > responded,
> > I will try.
> >
> > Vinux 5.1 is probably to much outdated.? I believe It is based on
> > Ubuntu
> > version 14 and I think they are now on version 19. I doubt that Ubuntu
> > offers any updates or support for it. Vinux was great in it's day, but
> > most people have moved on to a newer distrubution.
> >
> > I suggest you look at "Slint". It is a branch of Slakware Linux and
> > appears to be well supported and works very well with blind or low
> > vision people, especially beginners.? If you do a search for "Slint
> > Linux" on Google you should find their web site and help you with your
> > questions and needs.? Sorry, but I don't have the web site handy.
> >
> > If you have any other questions, please email me directly.
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