Re: early warning I hope

[Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com>]

I wish slynt had a auto partition drive feature choice I don't feel 
cunfortable creating linux partitions manually



On 2/19/2020 8:53 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> 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.
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> I'm not disparaging other distros, by the way.?? I've used Arch, 
> Debian, and Fedora for fairly long periods.
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>
> Al
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> 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.
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>> 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 <smile>.
>> 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 
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>> 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.
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>> 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
>>
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