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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

English, with custom key bindings for accents etc. Mostly because I hate AZERTY with a passion.

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

Smartphone: No
PC: No
Programs: Depends

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

Thai language

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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)

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

Outside the so-called Anglo sphere is no longer english?

Generally to my mother tongue, unless it's more technical (wider support) or clearly machine translated

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)

English, because:

a) I'm used to it.

b) Looking up error messages in my mother language is a giant pain.

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.