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I’m Dutch and always set everything to English. Except if Dutch or German is the original language of the content.
I really hate software that is German native and was somehow translated to English by someone who has the English skills of a 5th grader…
Generally same here, shame phone apps are not language selectable in most cases.
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.
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
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?
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 Turquía, the animal is pavo)
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
Upvote: I use English
Downvote: I use my local languageFYI, there are instances on which down votes are disabled. Reddthat, for example. I can’t see or make downvotes on this profile.
Beehaw is the same way. I’m fine with not having downvotes, I generally don’t tend to miss it…
Oh, I didn’t realize that
On .ml it shows me a nice overview of votes in both ways
I think Reddthat enabled downvotes a little while back. I still don’t use them, because I prefer the "upvote only method… rather than downvote, I’ll just comment why I disagree or ignore entirely. I feel it encourages discussion to not be able to downvote
Still disabled.
And I like it. I agree with you, it encourages me to ignore the bad faith trolls and the bigots quicker. I apply a user tag to them and move on without getting bogged down into reddit-style fights.
English language, local keyboard and formatting
Can confirm that Hexbear does not support downvotes.
Nor does Beehaw, I just remembered
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.
Excel translating function names surely has to be among the most pathetic decisions of software history
When you see someone using it in another language, you can immediately tell that they aren’t doing anything serious.
Dunno, isn’t logo older, with the whole frigging language translated?
Holy fuck, I despise translated Excel with passion. That’s a crime against humanity and the dumbest thing Microsoft ever did - and that’s a stratosphere-level high bar already.
I kinda get it where MS is coming from with this decision, but I don’t approve of it at all. They want to be more user friendly with all audiences, so that they can sell excel to small farmers in France, who definitely don’t speak a word of English. I guess that attitude should tell you that doing serious calculations wasn’t the main goal here, even though nearly everyone is using Excel that way.
This application is a victim of its widespread success. People make some pretty intense things with it that definitely call for switching to Python, R, C#, fortran or whatever. Because of that, serious professionals can’t avoid it any more. They can’t just treat it as a fun little toy it really is.
Is it really a toy if it’s turing complete?
As long as you’re doing simple little things, it’s fine. Try to do serious stuff with it, and you’ll end up fighting against the program at every turn. Professional grade software aims to make your life easier, not harder.
Oh god! Localization on function names must be one of the stupidest things Microsoft does. A literal anti-pattern.
If you’re a small strawberry farmer in rural France, it’s fine. If you’re doing something even a bit more serious like making technical or scientific calculations, you’re using a wrong tool. Excel wasn’t designed for that even though pretty much everyone is constantly pushing those limits.
It also sucks to use excel with tutorials amd you need to translate them on the fly.
Translating the UI is annoying, but trying to translate the function names is just pure agony.
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