Accessibility for visually impaired users on Linux ?

hello everyone.

I am working as a computer teacher for visually impaired patients in a French hospital, and today is the day one of my new patients ask me to keep using Linux after he lost his vision.

I am not a Linux expert and I've used Linux only a few times, although I'm looking at it because I want to get out of the windows ecosystem and I've started to use fedora.

But this patient is going to be on my planning very soon, and I need some help with the accessibility features, do you guys have documentation, tips, tricks, to learn about it ?

Thank you very much for your help.

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I aged 30 years in a comment

I was on r/linuxmemes and saw a comment about Gentoo teaches you how OSs work by installing everything by tarball. I had a flashback to Mandrake and having no idea what I was doing but following the manual and slowly figuring out what a tarball was and how it word. Untarballing stuff in the wrong place for this version. Hours on forums trying to get my wireless to work. Standard early Linux stuff. Then I looked up when Mandrake was current and I realized I am an old man.

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Desktop Linux users, what tangible issues has Linux caused with your hardware/software in recent years?

I'm really curious now since I regularly see people on youtube try out Linux and run into all manner of hardware or software issues with very little action on their part, as in, they have issues out of the box or when trying to perform a very simple task. I find it pretty odd because I have rarely come across any major issues, or issues that couldn't be solved relatively easily with few steps or by picking another distro or app.

So for desktop Linux users (and specially average non-linux-expert users like myself), have you had issues with Linux in recent years that were tangible, annoying, and had impact in your daily use? How easy where they to fix? Here's some examples of a few issues I have come across:

\- OBS hotkeys don't work if the window is not active. It was a wayland issue, fixed by forcing it to fallback to x11 with flatseal.

\- Fedora caused my drawing tablet screen to look washed out. Didn't bother to fix because I was distro hopping.

\- A certain game (towerclimb) refused to launch. Solved by following a guide in protondb with the help of protontricks.

\- Discord doesn't use my custom mouse cursor. No fix yet but it's a minor issue.

\- Very slow downloads on endeavouros. Fixed by re-ranking my mirrors.

\- Localsend refused to connect to my phone. Fixed with small tweaks to my firewall rules.

All these issues are annoying, but most of them have fairly simple fixes that I as a not so knowledgeable user could perform. I see people online with flickering screens, broken ISOs, weird issues when trying to install software, unreliable bluetooth connections... All around very tangible and annoying issues, often out of the box, that somehow I have almost never come accross.

I'd like to hear people's experiences to see whether I'm really lucky or if others might be doing something weird to have so many problems.

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dd block size

is the bs= in the dd parameters nothing more than manual chunking for the read & write phases of the process? if I have a gig of free memory, why wouldn't I just set bs=500m ?

I see so many seemingly arbitrary numbers out there in example land. I used to think it had something to do with the structure of the image like hdd sector size or something, but it seems like it's nothing more than the chunking size of the reads and writes, no?







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sshPilot, your SSH connection editor/manager releaes new version
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Bazaar software store now on Flathub
https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.kolunmi.Bazaar

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With Apple M1/M2 Graphics Driver Code Working, Alyssa Rosenzweig Stepping Away From Asahi Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rosenzweig-Leaving-Apple-Asahi

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I just received this beauty. What distro do you recommend?
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Google banning side loading 2026

Given what Google just announced, I think that Linux phones are going to get very very popular very very soon. Does anyone here have experience moving from Android over to the pine phone?
I use a lot of FOSS that Google really doesn't like and their policy changes coming in 2026 don't bode well for me. App developers on GitHub, F-droid anything not officially verified by Google or rather the developers of those apps are effectively going to be banned off of the ecosystem.

Just looking to pack a parachute.

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opilion: a minimal PulseAudio volume manager for X11 with vim-like keybindings
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Linux Storage Stack Diagram
https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Linux_Storage_Stack_Diagram

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Linux: The Untold Story
https://youtube.com/watch?v=obJOwEy62bk&si=hMzfIYXlDQJxs7qx

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The Former Lead For Apple Graphics Drivers On Linux Is Now Working At Intel
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Alyssa-Rosenzweig-Joins-Intel

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My first time attempting a Linux rice. Thoughts?
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Introducing keegees: Query and manage GNOME keybindings from the CLI with style
https://github.com/nutthead/keegees/

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Popular Nx build system package (npm) compromised with data-stealing malware targeting Linux/Mac.
https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/supply-chain-security-alert-popular-nx-build-system-package-compromised-with-data-stealing-malware

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Good to be home :)

Finally switched back to Linux after a few years of daily driving windows 10. I daily-drove Linux mint on a shitty little laptop from 2009 for about 2 years in highschool (2018-2020) and then "upgraded" to a slightly less shitty hand-me-down all in one from like 2014 with windows 8 (obviously upgraded to windows 10 ASAP) And then finally got my first real PC with windows 10 late 2020. Been using it since, upgrading a few parts here and there but sticking with windows 10 ultimately because it was running fine. Once they announced support for windows 10 would be ending I decided I would just go back to Linux. I'm sure windows 11 is fine when you debloat it but I missed the customisation that Linux offered and I don't really want to support Microsoft either way. The pushiness has just gotten a little fucking overboard, I got fed up with all the Ads and AI integration and I'd just rather not deal with it, I want an operating system that does what I tell it to do.

Decided to install Kubuntu, I just wanted something that came stock with KDE plasma and Xorg since Wayland really fucking hates my GPU. I also wanted something that would encourage me to use the Terminal a bit more, Mint is great and I'm positive I'll go back to it at some point but getting comfortable with the terminal has been a good change of pace and a decent challenge. Either way it's just back to be on a system that's responsive and does ONLY what I tell it to when I tell it to.

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GRUB broken? I wrote a noscript to quickly reinstall it (UEFI + BTRFS/EXT4 support)

Hey folks 👋

I often ran into messy GRUB reinstall situations on UEFI systems with BTRFS or EXT4. Since reinstalling GRUB manually every time was tedious, I made a simple Bash noscript that automates the process.



🔹 Works with UEFI boot

🔹 Handles BTRFS and EXT4 layouts

🔹 Cross-distro friendly (tested on Debian, Ubuntu, Arch)



GitHub: https://github.com/LINUX-OASIS/GRUB-REINSTALLER-BTRFS-EXT4-UEFI

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I want install Linux mint

Can someone help me? I'm completely lost trying to install Linux Mint without a pen drive or a second memory, and I can't install Linux because I'm already using it. Ahhh
help me I don't know what do over this

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What's happening with Nix OS? Why introduce unrelated politics in Software Maintainance?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFouWH7J6fs

I have seen this video about Nix OS project Maintainers banning people based on their personal political biases. This kind of behaviour is not good for an open source software.

Doesn't matter what your personal political or religious believes are, I really don't think we need to let that affect our open source projects. These projects are for everyone, you shouldn't discriminate based on your personal biasis.

What do you guys think of this?

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Applying Android’s Zygote model to backend service deployment

Hi, this post may not be directly related to Linux, but I think many people here are active in backend and cloud engineering. I originally shared this idea on r/Backend but didn’t get much insight, so I’m posting it here to get broader feedback.

The thing is while digging into Android internals, I came across Zygote. In Android, Zygote initializes the ART runtime and preloads common frameworks/libraries. When an app is launched, Zygote forks, applies isolation (namespaces, cgroups, seccomp, SELinux), and the child process starts almost instantly since it inherits the initialized runtime and class structures.

Why not apply a similar approach to backend infrastructure.

Imagine a cluster node where a parent process initializes the JVM via JNI_CreateJavaVM and preloads commonly used frameworks/libraries (e.g., JDK classes, Spring Boot, gRPC, Kafka client).
This parent never calls main()—it’s sterile, holding only the initialized runtime and class metadata (klass structures, method tables, constant pools, vtables).So the Parent heap is mainly polluted by the parased class metadata and structures of these frameworks and libraries.
When a service/pod needs to start, the parent forks. The child inherits the initialized runtime state, class metadata, and pre-parsed framework bytecode. It only needs to load its own business logic .jar and configs, then set up networking (sockets, DB connections, etc.). No repeated parsing or verification of framework classes. Cold-start latency drops, since only service-specific code is loaded at runtime.

Fork semantics make this efficient:

1.Shared runtime .text +frameworks/libraries bytecodes+parsed class metadata of these stay read-only and shared across children.

2.Copy-on-write applies when say the child's JIT modifies class structures of these shared framework libraries such as method tables or other mutable structures.

3.Each child can then be mounted onto different namespace and also other Linux primitives such as cgroups, seccomp can be applied to provide container like isolation.

->The parent per node acts as a warm pool of pre-initialized JVM state.

For large-scale self owned systems (Uber, Meta) you could even do multi-level forking. For example, a top-level parent initializes runtime + common libraries/framework's Then, multiple sub-parents forked from top-level preload service-specific frameworks and bussiness logic (e.g., Uber’s ride-matching or fare calculation). Scaling would then fork directly from the sub-parent, giving instances both the global runtime state and the service-specific state spining up almost instantly.


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