Getting Started with linux

[Linux for blind general discussion]

It would be easier to like Gnome, but the settings center is really hard to
navigate.
Devin Prater
r.d.t.prater at gmail.com




On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 7:08 PM Linux for blind general discussion <
blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:

> Well, simpler is a subjective term. I prefer Gnome over Mate and I find
> Gnome to use a lot of the same concepts that I use on my Windows 10 desktop.
>
> --
> Christopher (AKA CJ)
> Chaltain at Outlook
>
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> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2022 9:54 AM
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> Subject: Re: Getting Started with linux
>
> Hi,
>
>
> I personally do not like vanilla Ubuntu, simply because the Gnome desktop
> does not make any sence to me at all. If it was me, and at one point, long,
> long ago, it was, I'd download Ubuntu Mate, simply because the desktop is a
> hell of a lot simpler to get use to, and also a lot more like the
> traditional Windows Desktop in the sence that you can, if you so wish, put
> all your crap on it, unlike Gnome.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Brandt Steenkamp
>
> Sent from the Slint machine using Thunderbird
>
> On 2022/01/16 17:19, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > Well, it sounds like you're telling me to run linux under windows?
> > That isn't what I had in mind.  Here's what I've learned thus far:
> > I need to download a linux OS; then make a bootable media and install
> > the linux ISO to it.
> >
> > Well, I did that:
> > downloaded ubuntu-20.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso and (for flashing it to
> > the thumb drive) balenaEtcher-Portable-1.7.3.exe made a bootable thumb
> > drive and installed ubuntu on it.
> >
> >
> > Now I need to learn how to install ubuntu from the thumb drive.  I
> > must search for instructions to go on from here.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Howard
> >
> >
> > On 1/15/2022 5:53 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> >> Ubuntu or Fedora could do that for you. alt-windows-s toggles speech
> >> on and off and you want to choose try ubuntu or try fedora buttons on
> >> the desktop screen.  Desktop screen is windows-d once system boots
> >> and you have speech.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, 15 Jan 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello all,
> >>>
> >>> I've been wanting to try out linux but haven't wanted to give up or
> >>> mess up any of my working windows systems.  Would it be possible to
> >>> install some version of linux on a CD or a DVD; then just boot a
> >>> computer from that disk bypassing windows altogether?  If so, I'd
> >>> have to make it either talk or drive a Braille display.
> >>>
> >>> Wonder if anyone would have any suggestions?  Thank you.
> >>>
> >>> Howard
> >>>
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