Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoTIL when you change your region from US to UK in Mint, "Trash" becomes "Rubbish Bin."message-squaremessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up12arrow-down1message-squareTIL when you change your region from US to UK in Mint, "Trash" becomes "Rubbish Bin."Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square2fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDojan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 months agoThrowback to Microsoft renaming “zip file” to “postcode file” in English. The difference here obviously being that actual humans worked on the localisation Mint uses, whereas I’m sure Microsoft just uses machine translation.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 months agoYeah, this feels like a courtesy thing. I just didn’t expect it. (And only just now noticed after switching three weeks ago since this was the first time I had to delete anything in all that time.)
Throwback to Microsoft renaming “zip file” to “postcode file” in English.
The difference here obviously being that actual humans worked on the localisation Mint uses, whereas I’m sure Microsoft just uses machine translation.
Yeah, this feels like a courtesy thing. I just didn’t expect it.
(And only just now noticed after switching three weeks ago since this was the first time I had to delete anything in all that time.)