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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.
Yeah all of the software terms like ‘wizard’ ‘manager’ or ‘shortcut’ have super weird sounding translations in my language
Reading through this thread really makes me wish Esperanto or some other auxiliary language caught on
Isnt that english?
If you mean “is Esperanto English”, the answer is no, they’re pretty different, Esperanto combines elements of latin and slavic languages. If you mean “Isn’t English already an auxiliary language”, the answer is also no. English is a lingua franca, not an auxiliary language.
Fascinating, I didn’t know about auxiliary languages
Thai language
English, with custom key bindings for accents etc. Mostly because I hate AZERTY with a passion.
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.
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.
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
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.
My GNU/Linux computer has been set to Basque language for three decades. It works good.
Neither
Troubleshooting is done with
LANGUAGE=EN.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, 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.
English. It’s my second language & I’ve been using it in all my electronics since the 90s. Easier to understand programming too.
Generally to my mother tongue, unless it’s more technical (wider support) or clearly machine translated
