Post #2895960

2026-01-03 12:28 UTC

Correction: RHEL 10 backported the keyboard monitor implementation in Mutter, and updated at-spi2-core and Orca to versions with that feature. Thanks to @AdrianVovk@fosstodon.org for pointing out that this was likely. Still, I think it might be better to align with Debian 13 (trixie), which ships GNOME 48, for my training idea, both because it has a slightly newer version of GNOME (and presumably other components too), and because the upstream distro is fully free.

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@Clio09@digitalcourage.social 2026-01-03 14:10

@matt@toot.cafe @AdrianVovk@fosstodon.org So what distro would you recommend for somebody like me who is quite an experienced user but not a developer? My last linux experiments I had with a Raspi5 where i tried to build my own mini computer with a qwerty keyboard inspired by the BTSpeak. But unfortunately Orca didn‘t work well on raspberry PI OS and i didn‘t manage to fix this by using another desktop.

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@AdrianVovk@fosstodon.org 2026-01-03 17:56

@matt@toot.cafe Debian is just as susceptible to the usual "LTS shipping ancient software" problem. It just happened to release late enough that it got a new enough GNOME version to include this one change you're focusing on. As far as I understand Debian's policies, if Debian had shipped GNOME 47 they wouldn't backport this accessibility fix to Debian Stable like RH did for RHEL 10. Users would be waiting for Debian 14 and GNOME 51/52, or messing with the Debian Backports repo, which is a can of worms

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