On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:23:50 > From: J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > 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 > > > > --
