• eighthourlunch@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    I’m not so sure about that. It took me forever yesterday to get my international keyboard setup to work on Ubuntu the way I wanted it to. I’m saying that as someone who’s been using Unix/Linux in a school, IT and home setting for 30 years. It was unforgivably difficult.

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      10 months ago

      One of the major silent qualifications for posts like these are “if you read/speak English and have a standard keyboard layout”.

      Which is sad. I had an Egyptian friend who told me he had to use Linux in English because the Arabic support wasn’t quite there. This wasn’t a problem for him, but would have been a non-starter for his family.