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How would an operating system even cater to a country? Is there a distinctly American way to access files
Completely unconcerned that other operating systems might be using the hard drive and just fucks them up without a thought.
Bloat and running fans nonstop. Every other language pack needs to be added post install.
Super Sized.
In system requirements perhaps
You yell at it for being a tar and not a zip
(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.
When you look at the way windows handles i18n, it's fair to say it caters to the US market.
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.