5.1.11. GNOME has reduced accessibility support for screen readers
Many GNOME apps have switched from the GTK3 graphics toolkit to GTK4. Sadly, this has made many apps much less usable with screen readers such as orca.
If you depend on a screen reader you should consider switching to a different desktop such as Mate, which has better accessibility support. You can do this by installing the mate-desktop-environment package. Information about how to use Orca under Mate is available at here.
It come to me as a surprise that many folks answered to my poll and chose #Debian as recommended #Linux distro. It’s not really that much of a shocker when fediverse demography is considered but I had anticipated #Fedora to win. It was also a distro that I was going to switch to from #Windows, but in a meantime I changed my mind and right now I am giving a Debian a try :)
Thank you everyone for your recommendations and kind words :QueerCat:
I've decided #nixos is not for me. It has a lot of useful capabilities, but in day-to-day usage, the complexity of passing different SDKs and development environments through to the #jetbrains IDEs that I use, is just too frustrating.
After also trying arch, void, and a few other 'new' distros, I am heading back to #Debian 12.
Along with #qtile (probably) as a Window Manager, and with #distrobox providing the ability for extra diversity, it should provide a stable yet flexible #linux setup.
I can't even login to #Google. After entering my password, the tab just stops working. It stops interacting. No clicks, no tabbing, no arrow cursor.
I can't event open about:support it hangs.
I can't use #Facebook, eventually the tab will stop interacting. No clicks, no tabbing, no arrow cursor.
I can't watch videos on #YouTube. If the YT ads play first, it will get stuck there. If the actual video plays first, after a few seconds it will either get stuck at some frame, or just keep playing without any interaction (can't stop, etc.)
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Hello ! Quelqu'un.e sait si on peut simuler un click droit (pour ouvrir menu contextuel) sur ce genre de touchpad sous Debian (12) ?
J'ai pu activer le scroll, j'ai vu qu'il y avait de la conf possible à faire avec LibinputTouchpad mais je ne suis pas certain d'avoir compris comment.
J'ai posé la question sur l'IRC de Debian-facile...
C'est un Lenovo NeoPad le laptop.
Merci d'avance !
With the release of Debian 12, I decided that - instead of my usual setup of Xorg + Openbox - I would explore Wayland and a different desktop environment.
After making the switch to Sway and using it on both Linux and FreeBSD I find myself liking it very much!
Sway quickly gets you 90% towards a usable desktop. Its that 10% where you're crafting your own desktop just the way you like it that takes some experimenting!
I wonder why #debian did not pull the kernel deb package 6.1.64-1 with the #ext4 corruption bug from the package repositories. Countless of systems were upgraded to to buggy version as a result. Is there some technical reason why this could not be done? https://www.debian.org/News/2023/2023120902
Turns out, #LVM#RAID-1 with #dmintegrity over two separate physical disks and then putting a #dmcrypt device on top of the RAID is really slow. As in, it's estimating to take a week to do the initial sync on the two 12TB WD Red drives on SATA. (For comparison, zeroing out one of these disks should take 8 hours or something.)
Apparently it's a somewhat-known problem with dm-integrity, related to its journal.
How would you build something bitrot-safe & encrypted with that hardware? #Debian 12.
I've been using #Ubuntu on my main desktop computers since Warty Warthog, and it's mostly been a perfectly fine experience. Some releases were definitely better than others. Like other users I've not always been happy with the choices made and directions taken by #Canonical.
An apt-cacher-ng host or some other APT proxy/mirror that sits on your corporate network and whose logs are chomped by a clever analyzer that feeds the information of which packages/versions have been downloaded by which clients into a database ... that has to have been invented in the last 20 years. Someone got a pointer for me?
My #debian#jellyfin server is consistently freezing after several minutes if I boot and run it with no monitor attached. Having a monitor attached at boot and then disconnecting it seems to resolve the issue. System logs show nothing when freezes occur. Hard to troubleshoot because it doesn't happen if a monitor is plugged in. Anybody have any ideas?