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To the Korean Linux users: Which distro would you recommend? (feddit.org)

submitted 5 days ago by ibot@feddit.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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!

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[–] lens0021@programming.dev 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

What? I never heard that OS before though I am living in Korea. What are the pros of the OS? Does it have a native support for Kakao Talk?

[–] DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Oh it's a joke. Red star OS is a Linux distro made by the North Korean government. It's most definitely has spyware in it. Probably not as much as American companies but it does contain spyware and I think it takes a picture of your screen every so often like copilot does.

[–] lens0021@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Mine is also a joke. KakaoTalk, the most used massenger app in South Korea does not support Linux, a Wine approch is half-broken, and a WIP reverse-engineered Typescript & Rust based open-source client is not yet fully developed and never.

[–] DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 16 hours ago

I would avoid using stuff that goes out of its way to not support Linux. I guess it's popular. Most things do work under Linux once you figure out how to use it. You have proton, wine, and VMs and containers if the former don't work.

I think you may have replied to the wrong person though I was the one replying about red star OS the North Korean Linux distro