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!

  • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org
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    13 hours ago

    안녕하세요!

    i personally use slackware, nabi for xim imhangul-gtk2/3 for gtk and qimhangul-qt5 (peremen) for qt. meaning i don’t have korean input for qt6 or gtk4.

    ibus kinda seemed to work but had numerous glitches, same for fcitx but worse, uim made gtk2/3 programs hang. i’m honestly not sure how other korean users are doing it. i’ve heard good stuff about harmonikr, but not entirely sure how it’s much different from debian ubuntu etc.

    also ensure xkeyboard layout is korean and the Hangul key doesn’t identify as Alt_R in xev, some IMs don’t like it.

    • ibot@feddit.orgOP
      1·
      13 hours ago

      Thx.

      Sounds like the setup can be quite complicated. ;)

      I might need to dive into that topic.

      • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org
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        12 hours ago

        these days i’m thinking my setup is kinda weird, maybe slackware 15.0’s old glibc version is causing issues or something. i recommend you try debian or ubuntu’s latest version. ibus/fcitx/uim seems to be the most widely used choice. nobody seems to be using nabi or imhangul-gtk2/3…