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!

  • ibot@feddit.orgOP
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    2 days ago

    Sure, it always does.

    I’m fine choosing the best fitting distro from all these points mentioned in the post you linked.

    Unfortunately the post does not cover the only question I have: Is there a distro with specially good multi Keyboard layout support.

    For most people - including myself - this is never an issue, because they use only one layout. But especially people from countries with non latin alphabets really need this.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
      1·
      14 hours ago

      Keyboard layout is a question of the desktop environment

      All distros and environments should support the same amount of regular layouts. A difference is how you switch between them. KDE allows me to use CAPSLOCK to switch, GNOME does not allow that so I use Alt+A.

      If you are talking about complex input methods like I guess korean uses, these will use a separate program. These will exist on all big distros but I never tried them.

      Arch Wiki entry

      This will likely exist on all distros you might encounter. They should all have a website to search for packages, which you can use before installing

      For example