State of Orca in Ubuntu 24.04

[Stephanie Brown]

Thanks for all this useful info. Really missing the Vinux distro! I’ve been looking for a good stable Linux distro to replace it that plays well with Orca. Anyone had experience with Accessible Coconut?
Regards,
Steph

> On Mar 4, 2025, at 11:15, Nick Wood <nick at microlitesoftware.co.uk> wrote:
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> Thanks Milton and Kyle.
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> I've used Fedora before quite successfully but I just liked the idea of not having to upgrade to a new release twice a year.
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> I'll give Ubuntu 24.04 Gnome a go and see how I get on.
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> Regards,
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> Nick
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>> On 04/03/2025 13:11, Kyle wrote:
>> I have a miniPC that I use to run a home file and web server and the
>> like. I wanted to install Ubuntu 24.04 on it about two months ago, as I
>> also wanted the long-term support. Perhaps it was because I used
>> Ubuntu-MATE rather than the regular GNOME-based Ubuntu, but any time I
>> would change some basic Orca settings, Orca stopped speaking until I
>> deleted its configuration files in ~/.local/share/orca. I ended up
>> installing Fedora-MATE-Compiz on that machine and it is working well.
>> Perhaps this is fixed in Ubuntu-MATE 24.10, or maybe GNOME Ubuntu
>> doesn't have this problem. But now that I have things working and
>> speaking, I don't really want to run too many experiments on that
>> machine now. Since at least one person does have GNOME Ubuntu speaking,
>> I say go for that version and see how it works for you. You don't have
>> to install anything before you have played with it to see how well it
>> will work on your system.
>> 
>> ~Kyle
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