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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 on 10.11.54.6 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by lists01.pubmisc.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com id 01JFs7SS014714 X-loop: blinux-list@redhat.com From: Linux for blind general discussion X-BeenThere: blinux-list@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: junk Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com List-Id: Linux for blind general discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:54:08 -0000 I just want to say in this thread that I'm fairly new to Slint and have found the support very good.?? I appreciate it. I'm not disparaging other distros, by the way.?? I've used Arch, Debian, and Fedora for fairly long periods. Al On 2/19/20 4:47 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hi Micha??l, > > let me answer to this part of your last message: > > Le 19/02/2020 ?? 04:28, Micha??l Caron Couturier a ??crit : >> On the other side, Slint is Slackware based, out of the 5 majors >> distributions bases, it's one of the two far less used so the user have >> barely no community to help him in case of issues. > Really? > > For Slackware proper, there is this a very active forum: > https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/ > > For Slint specifically we recently replaced the former mailing list by a > new one, cf. this blog post: > https://slint.fr/blog/welcome-to-the-new-slint-mailing-list.html > It is very friendly and active, you can check looking at the archives > for the current month: https://www.freelists.org/archive/slint/02-2020 > > We have now also a mumble channel dedicated to Slint. > > So your statement "no community to help in case of issues" is not true. > The Slint mailing list is even more active than the debian-accessibility > mailing list that I also follow . > I don't say that to despise Debian which indeed is a good distribution, > and Debian contributors like Samuel do an outstanding job. > > As an aside indeed Slint ships Mate with mate-tweak and Compiz, and > documents how to get the best of it: > http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-14.2.1/doc/Accessibility/CompizKeyBindings > > Slint also allows to switch between console mode and a desktop without > loosing speech out of the box, which you can do with other distributions > only with a not obvious post-install manual configuration. > > That's not to say Slint is perfect, it certainly isn't. But we all ears > to bug reports and requests for help and enhancements. > > Best regards, > > Didier Spaier > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list