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Re:Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that ... by michaelmrose on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:57PM (#19578647)
If the info is for the vendor who deals almost exclusively with English then localization is pointless.

If it is for the user then being able to google the exact error is going to return more results than 47 translations.

Most users will in fact do nothing but report said error to their vendor whom will refer to their English language documentation.

In other news most programming languages aren't localized for example.

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Re:Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that ... by shawnz on Friday April 05, 2019 @09:53AM (#19582467)
> If it is for the user then being able to google the exact error

And they already provide just enough information to be able to google the error. I am just opposed to adding more detailed information, the kind of information that's only relevant for experts and is not guaranteed to be available in the middle of a crash.

> In other news most programming languages aren't localized for example.

Programming languages aren't consumer products like operating systems are

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Re:Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that ... by michaelmrose on Friday April 05, 2019 @03:33PM (#19586178)
Error messages aren't really consumer products either.
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