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You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went (www.osnews.com)
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[–] 13 points 3 months ago (9 children)

As a Windows user that was an interesting read. For some reason I thought Windows was catering to Americans whilst Linux was being the international all rounder.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    How would an operating system even cater to a country? Is there a distinctly American way to access files

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago*

    (lack of/lacking) internatiolisation and localisation.

    You do notice that a lot of software is made with Americans in mind and Linux/FOSS is no exception. But there's worse like notion for example.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    When you look at the way windows handles i18n, it's fair to say it caters to the US market.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Microsoft has tried all kinds of things, in all kinds of markets, to maximize their income. One of the more nefarious:

    Windows ANSI code pages closely match—but are not identical to—ISO-8859 character sets. Microsoft intentionally modified them to fill "blank" control character slots with symbols like curly quotes and currency signs.

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