Re: [gentoo-user] tried desktop profile

[Jude DaShiell]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, J. Roeleveld wrote:

> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:23:50
> From: J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org>
> Reply-To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tried desktop profile
>
> On Tuesday, October 13, 2020 6:52:05 PM CEST Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > Let's see if this is a correct bottom post.  I've never seen anything in
> > this life.  Eyes never developed enough for me to see.
> > The desktop profile emerge failed, and no more has been done with the old
> > machine yet.  I could change to basic profile then emerge @world then
> > emerge the basic profile @world then emerge --depclean to clear the
> > unnecessary desktop packages from the machine.  If I'm not mistaken, the
> > new machine has 8 cores on it but all the ssd disks I have for it are
> > 120MB disks so that might be a bit small for gentoo.  I'll read through
> > the hardware requirements again and make sure.
>
> I really hope you mistyped and meant those SSDs are 120GB (Gigabyte, instead
> of Megabyte)
>
> 120GB is enough. I have an older laptop with that and it runs KDE/Plasma just
> fine and even manages some games from steam.
>
> Most important is the memory requirement.
> 2GB Ram can be made to work, but if you want a desktop, you need to forget
> about the likes of KDE and Gnome and go with something that needs less memory.
>
> I have no idea how well they support accessibility tools like speakup though.
> Hope someone else with more knowledge about this can add their input.
>
> Kind regards,
Let's see, yes that was a typo, those ssd disks are each 120GB and
unfortunately the Alien ATX case used only has room for one of them.
However external ssd drives are on the market.
I figure to use mate for a desktop since mate is rated as having better
accessibility than gnome.  Now for a screen reader mate has orca
sometimes called screen-reader and fenrir can be used in mate-terminal
and on the command line outside of mate if necessary.  Fenrir if
installed is a pip install.

I found I have one available ssd drive available so am in process of
putting gentoo on that.
I can put archlinux and my podcasts on that 3tb drive on the older
machine with no problem.

> > Joost > > >
>

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