<lkcl>
mwcampbell: i'm setting up XFCE4 on all of them (including the dfedora24 and devuan ones)
<lkcl>
mwcampbell: but you can put anything you want
<mwcampbell>
Do you know if GNOME 3 would run with acceptable performance on the A20?
<mwcampbell>
Or does it depend too much on 3D acceleration?
<lkcl>
mwcampbell: i wouldn't use gnome3 so i couldn't tell you
<lkcl>
mwcampbell: try finding out if it works on the cubieboard2
<lkcl>
mwcampbell: that will tell you what you need to know
<mwcampbell>
OK. I ask because as far as I know, GNOME is still the only DE that's fully accessible to a blind user via a screen reader (Orca in this case).
<lkcl>
mwcampbell: ahh ok. interesting. well, check out the cubieboard, cubietruck etc. and you'll find the answer straight away
<mwcampbell>
The MATE desktop environment would be another option, since it's forked from GNOME 2.
<lkcl>
cooool. that's more like it
<mwcampbell>
The Crowd Supply page says the 10 Ah battery in the laptop housing lasts about 6 to 8 hours. I wonder how much longer that would be without the screen.
<lkcl>
mwcampbell: the screen is 3-4 watts, the processor is 2.5
<lkcl>
so let's say you have no USB devices either
<lkcl>
you have 40wH available (4.2 * 10Ah)
<lkcl>
sooo... 40/2.5 =
<lkcl>
16 hours
<mwcampbell>
nice
<lkcl>
mwcampbell: you can also always get one of those external battery packs and plug it in
<mwcampbell>
Now, for a real demonstration of the power of modular computer hardware: I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult or expensive for someone with the right skills to modify the laptop housing design to remove the screen and the CTLCD, and move the keyboard closer to the front. That'd make a very nice laptop for blind people. But no major PC vendor is going to manufacture something like that.