If I may ask, how do you play CDDA? I assume with speakup on Linux, but I'm having a lot of confusion right from the start, because it seems that arrowing through the main menu with highlight tracking on activates the options, or changes the screen somehow.

@3, I actually find it a lot easier to play CDDA using standard Orca. It is a bit tricky at first to get going with it, cause Orca does have a tendency to try reading the graphics. For example, when I launch the main menu, it just reads a whole bunch of back slashes, without giving any useful information. However, from what I’ve seen, there are 2 things which will come in handy when playing Cataclysm with Orca, and that’s firstly having a grasp on how the various screens are laid out. World generation is actualy a pretty good example of were knowing at least the basic layout really helps, cause right off the bat I know that its devided into 3 columns, labelled mods, world options, and finalize world. Additionally I also know that in the mods column I know that there are a bunch of sub categories for defolt mods, black list mods, and rebalancing mods. I just feel that knowing and understanding the layout will help you in grasping exactly were you’re focused on, and make navigating and doing stuff a whole lot more snappy. The second thing I’d recommend is grabbing a numpad. Being able to go word by word through what’s visible on the screen is incredibly helpful when you for example want to check what level your or NPC’s skills are at, and other important information.
Something else which is also pretty important when starting to play cataclysm, is having patience with the game, and trying to figure out work arounds for when you encounter a situation where you can’t access certain important information. The crafting menu for example was an absolute nightmare for me when I started out, cause when I’d try to go through the available crafting options with the arrow keys, it just wouldn’t read what recipes I knew, any information on how to craft any given item, nothing. However, with a little experimentation, I found that hitting e when focused on an item would present you its description, as well as its name and stats. As such, with this information, as well as the numpad to read some info which wasn’t being automatically read out I’m finding the crafting menu very usable.

Still can't get hades for some reason, i don't know what's where and stuff. And the combat is wtf for me. Though that's maybe because i'm using keyboard and not controller, and autoaim is off.

I'm not realy into controllers due to using pc and stuff with only one hand, but i'll see what i can do cause i have one laying around  which i got for slay the spire.