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1. Lohan Gunaweera (lohang@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Sep-2022 11:25:30 JST Lohan Gunaweera

   It's that time again! One of my friends has decided to use one of the latest GNU/Linux distros, obviously because people tend to like shiny new things. So she goes ahead and installs Ubuntu 22.04. It is the usual story. Like each and every mainstream distro, they have fixed things that are not broken. For the umpteenth time since 2005, we cannot find how to enable Sinhala Unicode input with the most widely-used keyboard layout. It's the same story with Fedora 36, Debian 11 etc.

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   • Lohan Gunaweera (lohang@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Sep-2022 11:25:35 JST Lohan Gunaweera

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     Considering the amount of time I spend each year, investigating into it and helping my friends and strangers with getting their first language going in a GNU/Linux system, I am starting to think that I can save time and energy by doing my own distro that has out-of-the-box Sinhala and Tamil input support. Then I can recommend that distro.

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   • Lohan Gunaweera (lohang@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Sep-2022 10:49:08 JST Lohan Gunaweera

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     Okay, maintaining my own OS as a fix to the above problem is too much of a trouble. This is what I am going to do:

     When Ubuntu 18.04 reaches end of life I will take this computer offline and continue to use it as a typewriter.

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