Asklemmy

I have my computers set to English even though I'm outside the major Anglosphere. It's nice. My older people had to tell me to use English on computers so that I could learn. They're right. Self-hosting is better in English in my adulthood today.

Upvote: I use English
Downvote: I use my local language

Here are the reasons why I use all of my electronic devices in English:

• I already know English, so it’s not a burden.
• Localization is never perfect. Just dig a bit deeper into the settings in Windows, and you’ll always stumble upon some English here and there, no matter what the language setting says.
• Troubleshooting sucks if you have to use another language. There are a million posts, answers and articles about your problem written in English, but only 9 written in your local language. Among the million articles in English, you’ll also find a few that were written by people who know what they’re doing. The 9 articles and posts in the local language were all written by clueless idiots.
• With some applications, like Excel, localization really hurts usability. I guess it’s fine for people who make calculations only a few times a year, but people who use Excel on a daily basis just hate the translated function names. If you already know your way around the English functions, using a translated version means you’ve got your both hands tied behind your back. What used to be trivial, suddenly becomes an epic voyage, just like it is with those who use Excel only once a year. Good luck trying to get anything done with the translated version. It might even be be faster with a pen and paper.

English, every tech device is in English. Mostly because out of habit. I grew up using tech before proper translations into my native language started to appear and now it's just really odd to see tech in my native language.

In addition, troubleshooting is easier. Most troubleshooting guides are in English and translating it into my native language can sometimes have odd translations. So it's easier to just skip that extra layer.

I'm Dutch and always set everything to English. Except if Dutch or German is the original language of the content.

In addition to everything said, people underestimate how god awful some translations still are. Stuff like date pickers where May is translated as "maybe" or "three days left" where "left" is translated as "opposite of right". Even for websites I'll prefer the original language even if I don't exactly speak it, and then translate myself the part I need.

When I started computering, there where no localised systems. When they started translating, the German was often misleading, incomplete, or just didn't fit in the button or whatever. So I stuck with English. Somewhere along the line I switched to en_UK, though.

And yeah, in this day and age I have no clue how good the translations are, because I never checked them.

I have mine set to English because it's shit from ass to troubleshoot anything computer related in my native language.

Reading through this thread really makes me wish Esperanto or some other auxiliary language caught on

At this point it's almost 2 decades of English uis only everywhere I can. Phone, computers, tv, etc.

Just makes life easier.

Sometimes I see or interact with someone else phone or computer and my brain just freezes in panic because I have no idea about the words and concepts that people see in my native language.

I use Dutch, because I’m one of the three Dutchmen that actually likes his language and I don’t want to see English all day.

Smartphone: No
PC: No
Programs: Depends

Edit:
Forgot, my debian servers are configured for english with german keyboard layout qwertz.

Although I can be considered a very tech-savvy person, I actually have my laptop set to use my local language and not English. This is because my local language has an issue of absorbing too many English words, I feel better when I have to remember and use my language's words and not the English ones. Not really sure if you will understand what I mean here though.

English. It's my second language & I've been using it in all my electronics since the 90s. Easier to understand programming too.

Since I let the browser to English so is less unique in the fingerprint I also let my computer in English.

A particular thing in Linux that I notice when I started using it. In the Windows even in other languages the Downloads/Music/Documents/Image/Video folders their paths are in English while Linux is the name of the folder so in the other languages this shit can be annoying to deal.

English. Except my phone because of how it handles keyboards

I prefer english UI everywhere, and then my danish keyboard layout ive used since forever

My GNU/Linux computer has been set to Basque language for three decades. It works good.

When I started using computers, my mother tongue had spotty support. Most of the content that I need(ed) to digest is also in English.

Only on past few years it made sense not to use English but now I'm habituated

Pc in English phone in mother tongue for some reason. Probably because it didn’t bother me that much. I can’t be assed to debug my pc and translate all the buzzwords in my head and programming is better when the keyboard shortcuts work without having to set them up manually.

English, English is the standard medium of education in India, I don't even know most academic concepts in my native language so no point in making it harder for myself, also read English faster and easier too simply because that's the language I was educated and read in.