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(Very Brief) Guide to Japanese Input on Arch Linux For anyone studying language with a character set other than English, being able to swap back and forth between input languages is important. This kind of functionality may come setup out of the box on Mac or Windows, but we need to do a little bit of work to get this functionality in Linux. IMF vs IME The TL;DR here is a classic client/server architecture, think of X11 vs a window manager. ...

<insert "BTW I use arch" meme here> Installation The (Still) Manual Bits In the past Arch Linux was somewhat notorious for its installation experience. It was relatively manual and entirely text based when compared with other Linux distros. I’m happy to report than in 2025, even if you want to dual boot with Windows, is easy. There are however still some manual steps. First, if you’re dual booting I would recommend installing Windows first. This will just make this whole process less error prone. ...