But today I’m not going to write about the importance of getting English input every chance you get. Instead, I will give you a very practical reason to install English versions of your operating system and other software rather than versions localized in your native language.
Suppose you have just updated the drivers for your nVidia card. Unfortunately, something has gone wrong and every time you reboot your machine you see the following error message:
Sterownik ekranu przestał działać, ale odzyskał sprawność.
From my new article “Why you should use English versions of your OS and other software” (also published on my other blog).
This is a good reason for Operating systems to always prefix messages with a message number. If the message text were “RD8F_88673E Sterownik ekranu przestał działać, ale odzyskał sprawność”, you’d have no problem searching for answers.