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by Blikkentrekker 1743 days ago
I always use the English version of everything simply because error messages in Dutch or any amount of troubleshooting isn't going to helpful at all.

In the Netherlands, almost anyone who has about any device he owns configured in Dutch is almost certainly technically illiterate. People keep everything English not even because the Dutch translation is inferior but because any online documentation one will find is based on the English version. This is so entrenched that any notes I even keep to myself on my computer are in English rather than my native language without even giving it any second thought.

It is honestly somewhat strange and awkward to read technical documentation in Dutch. Many of the translated words they use take a moment for me to figure out since I never heard them in Dutch.

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Same here. Some IT departments even have a policy of setting up every server in English to make troubleshooting easier.