Because Windows sucks?
This is a Linux community. Not sure what you imagine most people here think of windows…
you are the reason people hate Linux users, you cant just let people do what they want, always has to be some competition and “windows sucks”.
just be normal, windows has its place whether it’s for you or not.
If you think this is normal then imagine what other people think of the linux community though!
But here’s the issue: the parent comment didn’t even provide reasons why they think Windows sucks or examples/episodes where this was a problem for them. It adds nothing to the discussion, just free hate.
what? it LITERALLY asks if you want to add an additional keyboard when you set it up for the first time. and adding one afterwards isn’t hard.
circlejerk post.
Neither is the Linux one.
Also, why are you bringing keyboards to public computers‽
You can’t delete the default one it thinks you will use based on your locale, and it reverts to the default on boot. Also has the worst shortcut to silently change the layout (contol+shift)
You have to change… 1- your default OS language (download all the language files, ZzZZz) 2- change the locale 3- apply the new locale to “all”, which is the login screen, current user, new created user.
Go in regional settings and adjust if needed, then reboot with a USB drive on a distro of your choice,
1- go through the installation 2- update if needed
Now you should have the desired keyboard.
For what it’s worth, making a custom layout actually is a huge pain in the arse. That’s a pretty niche use case, but there is definitely no reason for it to be as much of a hassle as it is
I just changed one of the existing layouts. Very easy in any text editor, you just need to find the proper name or Unicode code for each function/character.
Because Linux is just a kernel.
It is pretty easy on KDE.
Because Linux is just a kernel.
This is too short. Here is the long form: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.en.html
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
“Wait, you all aren’t American?”
It’s just WIN + Spacebar, or click the keyboard layout icon in the taskbar.
Win + spacebar doesn’t work in some cases and if something is opened in fullscreen, closing it isn’t very convenient. The actual key binding that works is alt + shift I think.
Technically alt + shift changes between languages and ctrl + shift changes between layouts within the current language. Win + spacebar circles through all of them. So if you want to change from qwerty to dvorak I don’t think alt + shift will work, at least in windows 10.
