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.
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I know my work computer and phone are in English. Maybe the car too but I'm not sure. I have no idea what language I have on my own computers at home (English or French, but I don't know which)
Outside the so-called Anglo sphere is no longer english?
English, with custom key bindings for accents etc. Mostly because I hate AZERTY with a passion.
I don't remember. My phone is in English because games used/use to take your phone language as their default, and I wanted the original voices and stuff. Some apps do it as well. PC... I'm not sure.
English, because:
a) I'm used to it.
b) Looking up error messages in my mother language is a giant pain.
English for me, because when I started using computers, no one made computers in my mother tounge. And when they did come into existence, I had already had 2 decades of experience in English computing.
Computers and phone: Spanish
Most of the software that allows me to change the language setting: Spanish too
Exceptions: MTL'd stuff or when i feel like deliberately using another lang Funny case: Y'know Turkey is both the name of the country and the bird associated with thanksgiving / christmas? Yeah, gues what did I see once in a country selector (the country is Turquรญa, the animal is pavo)
Thai language
Generally to my mother tongue, unless it's more technical (wider support) or clearly machine translated
english on most cases, but my local language on m$win because it helps troubleshooting for others (gotta know what a menu is called) and some proprietary shitware only outputs garbled text when system is in english
Neither
Troubleshooting is done with LANGUAGE=EN.
English. Arabic is very neglected translation-wise and mixing LTR and RTL is mindnumbing
Oof I can imagine