diff --git a/electron/createWindow.js b/electron/createWindow.js
index 3191126c7..c34787278 100644
--- a/electron/createWindow.js
+++ b/electron/createWindow.js
@@ -3,26 +3,11 @@ import { app, BrowserWindow, dialog, shell, screen, nativeImage } from 'electron
 import isDev from 'electron-is-dev';
 import windowStateKeeper from 'electron-window-state';
 import SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES from 'constants/supported_languages';
-import { SUPPORTED_SUB_LANGUAGE_CODES, SUB_LANG_CODE_LEN } from 'constants/supported_sub_languages';
-import SUPPORTED_BROWSER_LANGUAGES from 'constants/supported_browser_languages';
 import { TO_TRAY_WHEN_CLOSED } from 'constants/settings';
 
 import setupBarMenu from './menu/setupBarMenu';
 import * as PAGES from 'constants/pages';
 
-function GetAppLangCode() {
-  // https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/locales
-  // 1. Gets the user locale.
-  // 2. Converts unsupported sub-languages to its primary (e.g. "en-GB" -> "en").
-  //    Note that the primary itself may or may not be a supported language
-  //    (up to clients to verify against SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES).
-  const langCode = app.getLocale();
-  if (langCode.length === SUB_LANG_CODE_LEN && !SUPPORTED_SUB_LANGUAGE_CODES.includes(langCode)) {
-    return SUPPORTED_BROWSER_LANGUAGES[langCode.slice(0, 2)];
-  }
-  return SUPPORTED_BROWSER_LANGUAGES[langCode];
-}
-
 export default appState => {
   // Get primary display dimensions from Electron.
   const { width, height } = screen.getPrimaryDisplay().workAreaSize;
@@ -171,11 +156,9 @@ export default appState => {
     window.webContents.session.setUserAgent(`LBRY/${app.getVersion()}`);
 
     // restore the user's previous language - we have to do this from here because only electron process can access app.getLocale()
+    // Update: we don't really need to call app.getLocale (didn't work anyway), so we could move this if we want.
     window.webContents.executeJavaScript("localStorage.getItem('language')").then(storedLanguage => {
-      const language =
-        storedLanguage && storedLanguage !== 'undefined' && storedLanguage !== 'null'
-          ? storedLanguage
-          : GetAppLangCode();
+      const language = storedLanguage;
       if (language !== 'en' && SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES[language]) {
         window.webContents.send('language-set', language);
       }