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• colourlessidea@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What did they do?

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  • SpacePanda@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yahoo.com/…/france-just-kicked-microsoft-off-1617…

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    • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Please allow ads on our site”

      No, no I don’t think I will.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Made a bunch of noise about switching from American software to American software.

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    • wieson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Open Source obviously belongs to everyone or no-one. But if you want to be pedantic about it, then Linux is from Finland.

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    • FosterMolasses@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Gotta love when people can’t even fathom a life beyond bending the knee to the American capitalist machine lol

      Believe it or not, most non-Americans actually have options.

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• sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Didn’t a government entity in Belgium try to do the same thing until a bunch of Microsoft suits swooped in and “encouraged” them to stay with them instead? Hope France doesn’t do the same.

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• c4m3lion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am soo curious which ditro, DE will they use

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  • pglpm@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Possibly something similar to NixOS: frandroid.com/…/3062047_adieu-windows-securix-et-…

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    • rozodru@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      from an IT perspective NixOS would be VERY easy for them to setup. pretty much clone the same configuration across all computers and you’re good to go. PLUS if they installed comma with it would make the user experience easy. just have to teach people to open a terminal and type “, firefox” and you’re good to go. keeps things clean. don’t have to worry about people installing stuff that could potentially break their system as you would just lock down the nix configuration.

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  • SpacePanda@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yahoo.com/…/france-just-kicked-microsoft-off-1617…

    2.5 million gov devices will switch to linux

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  • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No standard, no custom government specific distro designed for the use case and ensuring stability and consistency… every department can choose their own.

    So similar fragmentation that underpins the issues Linux has with consumer confusion when trying to switch. There are too many options all with weird quirks that isn’t an issue for technical people, but is impossible for the average person to wade through to find good options for them.

    Maybe they’ll specify more in the future, but at the moment it looking more like expecting each large government department to make fundamental decisions on their core IT infrastructure on their own, as opposed to a dedicated and specialized team with experience.

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    • spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ll bet money they’ll either chose Fedora, Ubuntu, or some custom distro.

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    • Brummbaer@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This makes total sense, since not ever department has the same needs.

      Also these are work computers, there is no “consumer confusion”- you get what everyone uses, that’s also one of the reasons windows is everywhere.

      Lastly, if rolling out different distros is a core decision in your IT you lack Linux experience in my opinion.

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    From what I remember reading; different ones, they’ve set no standard and let every department pursue their own needs.

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    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Didn’t Germany do that a while back? Didn’t end well IIRC…

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  • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It would need to support SELinux at the very least.

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• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i’ts the year of the linux desktop n!

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  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    C’est l’année du bureau Linux!

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• ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I gave a grapheneos phone (sadly Google got a registration) with sand boxed google store that I rarely use, Linux mint desktop, Linux mint laptop.

  My home has no natural light because no windows!

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• Heyla@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah we have fascism with macron, but….under linux 🤡

  Learn more about macron’s politics before be happy for us

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• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i don’t understand why any school or government would use proprietary software, even 20 years ago. sad that this is something we even feel the need to celebrate.

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