Why I can't recommend Arch or Gentoo

[Glenn]

I too wanted the talking Arch, and when it did not come up talking, I 
considered that it did not like my sound card.
I'm using an Acer laptop.
I also considered trying it on another computer, but when I read all there 
was to installing it, I lost interest.
I have installed Linux with the GUI interface many times, sometimes with 
accessibility problems, but that aside, it went well and was easy.
I think a GUI interface on the disk would be nice for even installing the 
CLI interface.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
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Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 3:06 AM
Subject: Re: Why I can't recommend Arch or Gentoo


OK, fine, but here's the thing.  As long as most people (yes, there are
exceptions) want a live desktop, I can't recommend Arch.  I've had a few
people tell me privately that they won't even consider Arch for exactly this
reason.  If it's a choice by the Arch developers, that's too bad as most
people are turned off by this.

I haven't seriously looked at Gentoo in about 10 years, so if they do have a
live desktop image, I don't know about it.  I haven't seen it on the various
mirrors.  If there is such an image, please send me a link and I'll evaluate
it.  Similarly, if there is a simple installer which actually guides you
through the process like Debian or FreeBSD, I'll take a look.  I like Gentoo
in concept, but I can't recommend it for the masses due to the above issues.
  There was going to be a fork which was going to address some of these
issues, but I don't know whatever became of it.

On 9/21/2015 5:05 AM, Michał Zegan wrote:
> The thing about no live desktop is an explicit arch decision, could even 
> say
> it's a feature, same about gentoo, but gentoo has, or did have at some
> point, a live image.
>
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