Quote Originally Posted by paasikivi
Do you want to type some things in Russian, or do you want the whole OS to be natively based in Russian?

Type. And I want the keyboard to be in the order that I want (the same layout as in Windows).
When I used Linux (Gentoo), I found it most convenient to just use the standard* Russian keyboard. Between various computer labs translit layouts, Windows translit layout, and KDE translit layout, it was much easier just to bash my way through...

*referring of course to the one which reads, from top left, й-ц-у-к-е-н...