[CW] OFF Topic - ATTN: Bind, Visually Impaired: Installing Debian without the restrictions

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

If you want Linux, perhaps you have an aging computer that needs speed, or
you want better accessibility by running text based programs, I recommend
Debian over all the competition, it's rock stable, but it's fairly crippled
by the Developer's decision to only have "free" software and drivers.
Here's how to uncripple Debian.

This is what I recommend that people do when installing Debian, it makes an
installation both possible and extremely useful to users especially those
who have to use WiFi.  It gets over the decision of Debian to only offer
free software and drivers, which many users find crippling.

Download the non-free cd
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/
which has firmware, you will want the full version, not the live version
(as far as I know) if you want accessibility installation and then after
it's installed use https://debgen.simplylinux.ch/ to add sources especially
multimedia and non-free, I added Audacity, Debian Multimedia, Google Chrome
Browser, Toot - a Mastodon CLI client, Ubuntuzilla, and WINE repositories.

Lastly, go to http://smxi.org/smxi.zip, download the zip package, unzip it
and run smxi.  Follow the prompts to add such things as text browsers and
utilities, leave the kernel choices alone.  smxi is run in console, but the
script will take you there, just follow the prompts, it's fully accessible.

I also recommend Voxin to people that would like a more natural speech
reader.  It's low cost, but unfortunately there was a major data centre
crash and the site is down, but go to https://voxin.oralux.net/ for updates
they will restore service.


Best wishes,

David N1EA
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