Poll: Lemmys outside the Anglosphere, do you have your computer set to English or your mother tongue?
2026-06-15 01:52 UTC
Replies (25)
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@SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2026-06-15 01:53
Upvote: I use English Downvote: I use my local language
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@sniggleboots@europe.pub 2026-06-15 02:51
I have mine set to English because it’s shit from ass to troubleshoot anything computer related in my native language.
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@chaosCruiser@futurology.today 2026-06-15 03:06
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.
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@Txopi@lemmy.ml 2026-06-15 03:58
My GNU/Linux computer has been set to Basque language for three decades. It works good.
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@Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-15 04:00
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
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@pleiades@lemmy.ml 2026-06-15 04:15
Reading through this thread really makes me wish Esperanto or some other auxiliary language caught on
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@Cheesus@lemmy.ca 2026-06-15 04:30
English, with custom key bindings for accents etc. Mostly because I hate AZERTY with a passion.
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@redparadise@hexbear.net 2026-06-15 05:43
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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@dektep@lemmy.world 2026-06-15 05:56
Thai language
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@Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 2026-06-15 06:13
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.
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@LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 2026-06-15 07:47
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.
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@devfuuu@lemmy.world 2026-06-15 10:11
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.
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@oats@piefed.zip 2026-06-15 11:21
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.
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@RedNajm@hexbear.net 2026-06-15 13:48
English. Arabic is very neglected translation-wise and mixing LTR and RTL is mindnumbing
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@folaht@lemmy.ml 2026-06-15 14:30
Neither
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@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-16 05:00
Smartphone: No PC: No Programs: Depends
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@DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl 2026-06-16 06:26
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.
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@hexagonwin@lemmy.today 2026-06-16 08:07
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
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@Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-06-16 08:12
I’m Dutch and always set everything to English. Except if Dutch or German is the original language of the content.
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@choco_polus@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-16 08:57
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)
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@kunaltyagi@programming.dev 2026-06-16 09:43
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
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@Balldowern@lemmy.world 2026-06-16 11:36
English. It’s my second language & I’ve been using it in all my electronics since the 90s. Easier to understand programming too.
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@Katrisia@lemmy.today 2026-06-16 11:50
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.
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@Canis_76@feddit.nl 2026-06-16 16:51
Outside the so-called Anglo sphere is no longer english?
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@sfxrlz@lemmy.world 2026-06-15 10:18
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.