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[owlectomy]

I don't know how I got Japanese input to work on this computer, but. I did.

I rule the universe.

Japanese input in Mac OSX is, "OK, so I turn Japanese on, and the next step is... oh. It works."
Japanese input in Linux Mint is, "OK, so I turn Japanese on, and now I go under Preferences and fiddle with SCIM input method, and it didn't work, let's try and restart it, and it still didn't work, let's download some packages, let's search on the forum, let's restart one more time, oh hey the language bar shows up now but I can't seem to click on it, let's search on the forum some more, I'm getting tired, maybe I'll ask on the forum in the morning. Oh, there's the language bar actually doing something useful but I can't get it to switch over to anything. Let's fiddle with SCIM again... oh, there we go."

This bodes poorly. Yet, I rule the universe.

Comments

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

On present evidence, Linux works exactly like Microsoft. Cause that's pretty much how I got Japanese input to work with XP.

[takumashii.livejournal.com]

I actually thought that XP was not too bad, but maybe I'm just comparing it to when Windows didn't natively support Japanese at all and I had to download half a dozen shareware add-ons just to get it to work.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

It's the 'install from disk, find on disk, can't find it on screen, oh there it is, click on the icon, doesn't work, doesn't work, click some more, doesn't work, click again, oh it works' part. Win98 was so much simpler: DL language pack from Net, click on icon and it works.

[jesse_the_k]

Major congratulations on installing Mint. I too am a linux newbie. Used Macs since 1985, and thought, "Well UN*X is UN*X how hard can it be?"

Hard.

Does Mint handle your screen geometry well? I have an HP Mini and it's only 590 pixels high. Pretty arggh worthy, but I was able to wrangle Xubuntu into fitting in that space.