Hey there!

My (Korean) wife’s notebook, an older LG gram, does not support Windows 10 anymore and I could convince her to switch to linux.

A few years ago, she used my notebook with Linux Mint and I had to set up and configure everything to enable her to switch the Keyboard between English and Hangul. Honestly, it didn’t work that great. I didn’t know what I was doing, because I never used a dual layout keyboard and she felt like switching layout was somehow strange and felt weird.

I thought maybe there is a distribution, that supports that out of the box. The only south korean distro I found is HamoniKR. Does someone have experience with it?

Or can someone recommend a distro that supports multiple keyboard layouts very well?

The OS language does not need to be Korean, english is totally fine. Only the keyboard layout should be easy to switch. I mostly use Debian based distributions. Therefore it would be the easiest for me to support, but something Redhat based should also work out.

Desktop wise, something similar to Windows as the default desktop would be nice. Cinnamon should work fine (seems to be HarmoniKR’s default) or KDE Plasma.

Thanks in advance for good your tipps and advices!

  • lens0021@programming.dev
    18·
    2 days ago

    ​All Korean keyboards, including the one on my LG Gram (which is a Korean model), have a dedicated key for switching between English and Korean (the “한영키”). Everyone who isn’t technically inclined uses this key. Using Ctrl + Space is a bad user experience.

      • lens0021@programming.dev
        1·
        21 hours ago

        I assumed an ordinary person. My parents use the “한영키” to switch between Hangul and the alphabet. While I’m geeky enough to configure my Caps Lock key to function like that switch, most people wouldn’t even imagine that functionality is configurable.

    • ibot@feddit.orgOP
      5·
      2 days ago

      You’re right! I just checked and it was a dedicated key to switch the layout. That makes it easier!

      I think one thing that bothered my wife when she used my notebook was the keyboard shortcut to switch the language.