Bazzite user here, although I think this is potentially even more relevant to Bluefin and Aurora, so I popped this in General just in case.
I’m starting visa preparations to move to Japan in the coming months, and I’m looking into ditching my Macs entirely and going all in on Linux. I’ve been looking at the forum archives to see what was previously suggested for installing a Japanese IME so I could type in Japanese and be productive in more than just Western languages. I’m also aware Chinese, Korean, and related languages all depend on similar IME software for text input, though I don’t know how much of that software is shared across languages.
Does the Universal Blue org have any kind of stance on whether there could/should be official variant images produced with preinstalled IMEs as the project grows in popularity, or is the expectation that users who rely on those languages will figure out the installation themselves?
Most traditional distros have struggled with this use case in the past, often providing official installers which can be set to display in Japanese, but result in installing environments incapable of Japanese text entry. Projects like Ubuntu Japanese Remix sprung up and provided ISOs which installed an environment preconfigured for Japanese text input, and entire YouTubers built their channels around providing how to videos on getting every distro set up for Japanese text input as well.
If the intent is that Universal Blue “product” images like Bazzite, Aurora, and Bluefin are usable right out of the box, I don’t think it would be unreasonable to provide some sort of official or at the very least “officially sanctioned” image for this. I would be willing to spin something up that works for Japanese, but I don’t know enough about Chinese or Korean to know that I’d do those well. Is there any interest from other users here?