Why I can't recommend Arch or Gentoo

[Kyle]

There are two of us who work on TalkingArch. The development is
certainly open for others to come onboard, provided that we can all
agree that TalkingArch *must* remain as close to pure Arch as possible,
with only speech and braille support added, along with a couple of
things that aid in reading the documentation. In any case, what comes
out of a TalkingArch installation must be exactly the same as what one
would get by installing Arch from the pure Arch iso, unless a talking
system is needed, in which case, we provide steps on the wiki that will
make this happen. Braille testing and help is certainly needed, as only
one of us has the ability to test braille support, and it's possible
that Kelly, the developer with the ability to test braille, has a
limited supply of braille devices on which to test the braille support
in TalkingArch. He does maintain the brltty-minimal package that
TalkingArch uses from the AUR, so if any tweaking of its configuration
is needed, he can probably help, although I don't think we ship a
custom config file. I believe only the PKGBUILD is tweaked to make the
brltty-minimal package require as few dependencies as possible, while
still working with as many devices as possible, even the old ones,
which many people still have, owing to the extremely high cost of
purchasing a braille display. Any help with testing or patching this
package is greatly appreciated, and as long as it doesn't interfere
with the functionality we currently have, it will most likely be
accepted into either the brltty-minimal package or the TalkingArch
build system, and working images will be signed off by both of us as
usual.

I can assure you that there is no crazy prioritization of bugs going on
here, with the exception of the fact that TalkingArch must be Arch with
speech and braille, nothing more, nothing less. As always, bugs and
fixes are accepted in any number of ways, all of which are listed at
https://talkingarch.tk/contact.php
Anyone is also more than welcome to clone the repository and help with
development from there. We have no formal application process for
TalkingArch development, only express an interest and submit acceptable
work. Eventually, volunteers who submit work that we can include may be
invited to participate in the development process, including gaining
push access to the git repository for the build system. Also, since the
AUR now allows multiple maintainers, it may also be possible to add
people to the brltty-minimal repository as well, but since Kelly
handles that, it may be better to ask him directly about that. Hope all
this helps.
Sent from my violin