Favorite out-of-the-box accessible Linux laptops?

Linux for blind general discussion blinux-list at redhat.com
Sat Jan 22 23:03:52 UTC 2022


I have the J4 from Think Penguin.  https://thinkpenguin.com  It's a 
13-inch Clevo laptop with 8 gb ram and 250, or so, gb ssd.  I ordered it 
with Trisquel 9.0 GNU/Linux, but they'll put in anything you say.  They 
set up my initial user as I'd asked, so, there was no trouble with my 
first use.  Machines from ThinkPenguin are set up to work with 
fully-free distros, like Debian, Trisquel, and the like, but they'll run 
anything.  I'm now using Fedora 35, with the linux-libre kernel, and 
it's working fine, almost.  I find that the machine will use about 25% 
of battery while sleeping about 12 hours.  I have contacted ThinkPenguin 
support, on this, but have not yet heard anything. To sum up:  TP are 
great at making the sale, but follow-up could be better.



Cheers,



Dave  H.




On 1/22/22 17:45, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Hi,
> Hypra provides 14 inch machines, with Debian and all set for 
> accessibility (-Orca, good voice, Mate desktop, Firefox, Libreoffice, 
> Thunderbird, etc). They provide also a high human support to learn and 
> maintain the machine. Just the machine is not powerfol (NL51GU for 15 
> inch).
>
> Regards
>
>
> Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
> Debian Developer non uploading
> Community team member
> Accessibility team member
> debian-l10n-french team member
> President of Debian France non-profit organization
>
> Le 22/01/2022 à 21:16, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :
>> I am looking for a Linux machine to use in graduate CS courses. I 
>> probably
>> want Ubuntu or another common distro that comes with the screen 
>> reader (I
>> assume Orca) and other a11y stuff already installed. I like small, light
>> laptops (since I don't use the screen) that have decent memory and 
>> battery
>> life. Which machines are your favorites.
>>
>> Thanks for the tip on VmWare the other day, BTW.
>>
>> Amanda[0]
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