I'm in crisis, help!!!

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hi all,

I am currently running vanilla Ubuntu 22.04, but every time the laptop 
reboots, which I will admit is not often, I spend more time on fixing my 
sound devices than I feel should be needed. This is driving me nuts!

What would you suggest I do?

Fedora doesn't want to talk in the installer, why I have no idea. I 
tried upgrading from a Fedora 35 install, but it stopped talking as well.

I've tried installing Arch, but for some reason the Arch installer also 
doesn't want to talk, and, yes, I know how it's suppose to be done. It 
use to talk just fine on my system, but now?

OpenSUSE's installer is inaccessible, and being married to a blind lady, 
I don't have eyeballs to assist.

After re-installing Slint a few days ago, something broke when I updated 
the system to the point that I couldn't boot it at all.

Now you understand why I feel like I'm in a bit of a pickle here. I 
refuse to re-install Windows on this machine, I really don't want to 
take a dive out the nearest window, which would be the result of me 
doing that.

Have mercy on this dumb South African and help me out of my misery!

-- 
Warm regards,

Brandt Steenkamp

Sent using Thunderbird on the Linux box.