Getting Involved

[Bridger Reed-Lewis]

Ordering a gen 10 thinkpad x1 carbon with 16gb of ram, i7, 512gb NVME,
touch screen for 280$ should be an amazing little machine can't wait to
install arch on it!

On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM Rob Whyte <fudge at thefudge.net> wrote:

> Good afternoon from Australia;
>
> I'm Rob and have been following this, I come from a vision impairement
> perspective.
>
> This is all very interesting and I thoroughly enjoyed the Youtube
> presentation, I also have been involved in Vinux distro for vision
> impaired though it has become stale in past several years.
>
> My daily driver is nix either Freebsd or Debian dirivitives.
>
> Due to tennis elbow/RSI I use a combination of Kenesis keyboard, foot
> switch, screen reader and at work Dragon at times.
>
> What ever happened to Simon software that was about for a long time on nix?
>
>
> I'd be interested in sharing further TTS options for those that prefer
> more treditional voices suxh as Eloquence on Linux availabel through
> Oralux.
>
>
> What was the IRC channel, I missed it in the thread/  My handle on IRC
> is Fudge.
>
>
> Thank you all, will be following along.
>
> Rob Whyte
>
> 73
>
> On 4/6/25 17:48, Benson Muite wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 4, 2025, at 10:31 AM, Bridger Reed-Lewis wrote:
> >> Oh, I guess this is a question for the both of you. I prefer Arch
> >> linux with KDE, what's your opinion on that, are there any
> disadvantages? I
> >> know they get updates a little less often, I just know packages and
> >> applications can be installed manually if needed.
> >>
> > There is a page on the Arch wiki:
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE
> >
> > You may want to contact the maintainers for the metapackage:
> > https://archlinux.org/packages/kde-unstable/any/plasma-meta/
> > They both maintain many packages, but may be better able to
> > advise on this and on community communication channels.
>
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