Re: Is The Move To Linux Happening Primarily Outside North America?

On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:00:56 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

Jack Wallen is trying yet another distro which tries to make it easy for
Windows addicts to wean themselves off Mother Microsoft
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/vailuxos-switch-from-windows-linux/>.
 
He encountered an interesting glitch in the setup, which sounds familiar
to me from other ex-Windows-friendly Linux distros: he had trouble
entering his password because the keyboard layout defaulted to German.
 
A lot of these distros are defaulting to non-English/American setups
nowadays; is this a sign that the primary movement away from Windows and
towards Linux is happening among non-English-speaking users?

Is it possible that ValluxOS is developed in Germany? What I can tell you
for sure is that every Linux distribution I've ever tried has always
respected my wishes as to which keyboard should be default. Windows, on
the other hand, insists on making US English the default, even though it
asks me which layout I want during the installation and I answer Canadian
French.

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