hey all,
Just another random computer related post. I now have Japanese working on Vista, which is why I'm able to do this: 今日は、大序か? That took maybe thirty seconds. I tried for several hours to get Japanese going on Linux, and failed epically.
There are certain aspects to Linux which are very nice (configurability, security, etc), but by now my experience with them is about the same as with Windows or Mac: good for some things, really crappy for others. Why is it so easy to configure Japanese on Windows, while the documentation for Linux seems to have been written by a few drunken hamsters after a week long binge. They mention certain packages, but then don't tell you how to start running them in the background. Even the main UI ones don't show up in the start up menu, and starting them from the commandline failed.
