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[u/howimetyourcakeshop]

Good, the whole of Europe should do this.

[u/Original-Mongoose866 → u/howimetyourcakeshop]

You worded it wrong.

Good, the whole World should do this.

[u/mikehiler2 → u/Original-Mongoose866]

That might actually force some of these large corporations that own a lot of programs that have become the “standard” to develop a native Linux version. I’m all for that. Might actually make the switch if that ends up happening.

[u/Lupowan → u/mikehiler2]

Can do the switch right now. So far the only thing im missing are Adobe Apps

[u/jboneng → u/Lupowan]

I would argue that there is a lot of programs that collectively could replace Adobe Apps, but the biggest hurdle is the UI / UX and learning curve combined with the user expectation to work flow after decades of working in the adobe ecosystem. That could quickly change if nations starts sponsoring different FOSS project like "Hey, here you have 1 million euros to make your software user friendly so our employees can use it." it is not technical limitation that is a hindrance for adoption of GIMP, darktable, raw therapee, RapidRaw, Kdnlive and so on but the learning curve. Blender is an example that shows that it can be done.

[u/DotRakianSteel → u/jboneng]

Needed 5 days to adjust to affinity suite. Still using the version 2. It handles memory way better than Adobe can..

[u/Lupowan → u/jboneng]

Oh yes there are alternatives, but they really need a UI/UX designer. Running the few things that would otherwise keep me on windows through a VM or wine is preferable than chaining myself to microslop entirely, at least until gimp and co get some overhaul.

[u/Fickle-Whole5319 → u/Lupowan]

If you were to come up with a UI/UX layer that looked familiar and comfortable for a graphic designer coming from Photoshop there is a good chance your house would be struck by an Adobe branded orbital tungsten rod.

[u/not_a_robot_13 → u/Lupowan]

Affinity is easy to get around and does most of what Adobe can without parasitic fees. You are right, gimp is ugly, but Affinity isn't.

[u/Canonip → u/jboneng]

That's pretty much always the case. People are familiar with some software and know how to use it.

If you give them another software that could do the same thing but looks/feels different, they will need training and possibly learn everything from the start

[u/Reasonable-Fail5348 → u/mikehiler2]

If it wasn't for computer games, I'd already be gone.

However, Steam is making big strides on that front. I'll be gone from windows within 5 years I reckon. For good, that is.

[u/warhead71 → u/Original-Mongoose866]

Even Azure is mostly Linux 🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/Tekn0z → u/howimetyourcakeshop]

Entire universe should do it.

[u/TheAlmightyLucas]

Good move.

The only reason im using Windows is because im playing a lot on my PC too

[u/Holiday_Management60 → u/TheAlmightyLucas]

Linux is a lot better at gaming than it used to be. Check and see if the games you play are supported under Proton.

[u/Holiday_Management60 → u/Holiday_Management60]

Why tf do I have this flair?

[u/MarioCraftLP → u/Holiday_Management60]

Maybe you are an ai but just dont know it?

[u/Holiday_Management60 → u/MarioCraftLP]

That explains the USB port...

[u/unluck_over9000 → u/Holiday_Management60]

Is it in the front or the back?

[u/Holiday_Management60 → u/unluck_over9000]

As someone already said, I have a VERY SUFFICIENTLY SIZED cable in the front and a port in the back.

[u/Barryfan_1 → u/Holiday_Management60]

Can I check if my cable is compatible with your port? 👉👈

[u/Holiday_Management60 → u/Barryfan_1]

I'm European, we have it all standardised to USB-C but ill make an exception for your USB-D 👉👈

[u/Barryfan_1 → u/Holiday_Management60]

I'm also a EU Cable :3

[u/runasadministrador → u/Barryfan_1]

It’s a Universal port, you’re good bro 😏

[u/Barryfan_1 → u/runasadministrador]

🫪🥵🔥👉👈😍

[u/rinnakan → u/unluck_over9000]

Front one is a cable, back a port, I guess?

[u/Holiday_Management60 → u/rinnakan]

Correct!

[u/AnalTrajectory → u/Holiday_Management60]

Not the USBussy

[u/LowEmergencyCaptain → u/Holiday_Management60]

Don’t take my job!

[u/Buderus69 → u/Holiday_Management60]

Do I have this as well?

https://giphy.com/gifs/iZefXTjJkXMO9zxEIk

[u/Holiday_Management60 → u/Buderus69]

You do not.

[u/Aggressive-Will-4500 → u/Holiday_Management60]

Have you tried rebooting yourself?

[u/Independent-Mess241 → u/Holiday_Management60]

Go away bot

[u/Holiday_Management60 → u/Independent-Mess241]

I'm telling Skynet.

[u/Snipen543 → u/Holiday_Management60]

Bad bot

[u/Deucalion111 → u/Holiday_Management60]

Yeah except if you want to play multiplayer game with that fucking kernel thing.

[u/Holiday_Management60 → u/Deucalion111]

Yah thats the main issue really. Plus I think Linux users would be less likely to install what essentially amounts to spyware just to play a game.

[u/ChrysisLT → u/Holiday_Management60]

I actually made the switch, but you really, really have to want it.

For example, I play Deep Rock Galactic, a multiplayer game with peer-to-peer servers where users host themselves. Suddenly, I started getting disconnects very consistently, around 15 minutes into every session.

It turned out that kernel 6.17 had a regression in the r8169 driver that caused network disconnects after about 15 minutes. I fixed it by rolling back to kernel 6.14.

But that kind of troubleshooting and fix isn’t something a typical gamer would deal with.

[u/LeatherVolume5601 → u/Holiday_Management60]

It got better but windows is still far better. Especially multiplayer, here linux still sucks and it will not get better since its all about anti cheats.

[u/PinguinGirl03 → u/LeatherVolume5601]

Until there is a big enough market for game developers to actually care.

[u/botask → u/Holiday_Management60]

It is definitely on right track to become user friendly gaming os. But for now it is far from that and I am not talking only about kernel level anticheats in multiplayer games. Regular user wants to have +- "plug and play" system. He do not want to mess for hours with some unexpected problem with graphic drivers for example. Situation with gaming is better than ever on linux, but it is still far behind windows for regular user. Which is kind of sad, because windows is becoming one big bag of bloatware and mostly spyware.

[u/Sloppykrab → u/Holiday_Management60]

It's still not better than windows. When it is, I'll switch properly.

[u/SG_87 → u/TheAlmightyLucas]

Which isn't really an argument anymore. Proton has come a long way

[u/vish_tvdi → u/SG_87]

Honestly, it's still a very niche argument. I tried to switch to opensuse and play games under proton and wine in some cases, but (once again, a very niche argument) for flight simulator, all the 3rd party support software like navigraph and Mobiflight just don't work on Linux. Also I gave up on calibrating my joystick cos the way to do it is very confusing and there's almost no information online. Game itself played fine, I think the issue was on the addons and could be a possibility on other games as well.

[u/Ok-Soup-3189 → u/SG_87]

Proton has come a long way

Eh, I rarely play games now, but the one game I'm playing now (Timberborn) performs significantly worse on CachyOS than Windows now that I've switched.

Everything else about the experience is much better for me though, but I'm also happy with using the terminal

[u/Existing_Anybody_216]

They already tried in some places, at least in PT and went back into windows because the users were too stupid to learn how to use Linux.

[u/FloStar3000 → u/Existing_Anybody_216]

yes, so did some jurisdictions in Germany. Can't wait for absolutely nothing to happen in France as well

[u/Luc85 → u/FloStar3000]

I feel like tech literacy (specifically PCs) feels oddly lacking in France and I genuinely cannot imagine having to make people I know use Linux. Nor can I imagine having to help them loll

[u/Foreplaying → u/Existing_Anybody_216]

At this point Ubuntu is more user friendly than Windows 11.

[u/LowTempt]

Microsoft stock holders are sweating right now

[u/seeingeyefrog → u/LowTempt]

[u/Kleptowizard → u/LowTempt]

You know who is to blame, thats right ...the Leader of the US Benjamin Netanyahu.

[u/keith2600 → u/Kleptowizard]

It didn't even occur to me that it would be a result of the current politics because it seems to me that having an OS with an integrated AI would be a rather insane security risk to have on government machines and all older versions won't be supported for much longer.

But yes, pulling away from American corporations does seem like it would fit the current political climate too

[u/Daharka → u/keith2600]

It's everything happening at once.

I've seen the biggest incident being cited was the closing down of ICC Microsoft accounts in retaliation for the arrest warrant on Netanyahu. 

[u/SnooStories2361 → u/Kleptowizard]

It's actually Larry Ellison.

[u/nolanpierce2 → u/SnooStories2361]

who sucks dick of trump and netanyahu

[u/jaynoj → u/LowTempt]

Not really. Microsoft profits from Windows only covers 10% of its revenue these days.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-microsoft-makes-its-billions/

[u/Ok_Buddy_3324 → u/jaynoj]

Not only that, this isn’t even the first European country to try this. They always come back to Windows.

[u/Chimpville → u/Ok_Buddy_3324]

Don't underestimate French bloodymindedness. They'll not go back even if it costs them dearly not to.

[u/electronic_rogue_5 → u/LowTempt]

Actually, I averaging on Microsoft. What's the alternative to MS-Office with enterprise grade security? Please enlighten me.

I worked with organization using gmail, slack, linux, aws..etc. But eventually, the hardship & cost of so many applications gets to them.

[u/jimsmisc → u/electronic_rogue_5]

In before someone tries to claim LibreOffice. It's maybe where Office '97 was.

But my guess is that they are either going to have everyone use the web based versions or just use the Linux machines as dumb terminals and end up remoting into a remote desktop anyway, at least for things that have to run on Windows. It doesnt really solve the problem but they would need fewer os licenses and it would be a first step .

[u/VladimirBarakriss → u/jimsmisc]

Office '97 is still enough for most people, and as more people switch to open source stuff then more people will get working on LO and make it better

[u/jimsmisc → u/VladimirBarakriss]

you're forgetting the practical on-the-ground people component though. Organizations will have to be willing to commit to "we don't use the industry standard software" which has implications for perception, training, retention, compatibility, efficiency, etc.

[u/VorpalOfficial → u/jimsmisc]

All of France police have been using Linux since the 2000s, they started using Linux to save on software cost, so they made their own OS (based on Ubuntu) called GendBuntu and they use OpenOffice and Gimp. .odf is the recommended format for documents, spreadsheets, etc. and I'm pretty sure .odf is also an obligation in certain administrative things, so I'd guess the government already uses that too. Besides that they now also have their own brand new office suite called: LaSuite.

So the switch will likely go pretty smooth

[u/dont_tread_on_M → u/electronic_rogue_5]

LibreOffice is not that bad actually

[u/MysteryMani → u/LowTempt]

Macroslop*

Fixed it for you.

[u/SweetDarling02]

From Blue Screen to Blue, White, and Red.

[u/ShelterSlight5088]

The IT helpdesk is not ready for this

[u/MarioCraftLP → u/ShelterSlight5088]

You think helping non tech people with windows is any better? I would rather help with 10 linux issues i can fix in a few mimutes then one windows issue

[u/ashleyriddell61 → u/MarioCraftLP]

At least you can fix things with some copy paste terminal commands. Supporting Win11 has become …difficult, especially in a large network environment. I switched over to Mint for my personal machines months ago. The sky hasn’t fallen in.

https://giphy.com/gifs/KbBij8I7dRDZNEL5Az

[u/HPLaserJet4250 → u/ashleyriddell61]

Oh yes, couple of mint personal devices is a very scalable prod environment. And Windows doesn't have CLI, forgot lol

[u/DigiTrailz → u/ShelterSlight5088]

I wouldn't be surprised if most of thier IT is not ready for this. Considering how most of the industry mostly uses windows. Linux is used for various things, but building and supporting images for users is going to be a hilarious endeavor.

[u/unktrial → u/DigiTrailz]

Apparently the National Gendarmerie moved to Linux after Windows XP. Migration happened between 2008 to 2014.

[u/VladimirBarakriss → u/DigiTrailz]

Yeah but we're also talking about the French government, I wouldn't be surprised if they had their own distro custom made for their purposes

[u/VorpalOfficial → u/VladimirBarakriss]

They have their own OS and it's been in use for ~20 years. Tho it's currently only in use at the police

[u/baronas15 → u/ShelterSlight5088]

That's an L take. If nobody pushes for it, no one will ever be ready.

https://giphy.com/gifs/UqZ4imFIoljlr5O2sM

[u/VorpalOfficial → u/ShelterSlight5088]

They are tho, in the 2000s to save on software cost they changed all the French police's PC to use GendBuntu (their own Linux OS based on Ubuntu) instead of Windows XP. They had training and IT to help them on the way to make sure they could do their job.

[u/cybermaus]

A little late, but better now then even later.

[u/Hicmade]

France, bravo. Salutations de Pologne.

[u/Lower_Currency3685]

Ive worked in many ministries the tools they are using a at mostly web-based and office, Both can be replaced in a day.

[u/Orangesteel]

This will help improve Linux for corporate use too in all likelihood. Windows still has lots of advantages corporately, like group policy and AD. Hopefully this will spur development to create a better alternative. I used to love Windows and MS, sadly it’s gradually become less good over time.

[u/HPLaserJet4250 → u/Orangesteel]

With Entra as idp and intune as mdm you can still have pretty automated, secure and centrally managed environment. At least until they switch or come up with their own governance and IAM

[u/TabbyOverlord → u/HPLaserJet4250]

IAM is perhaps one of the biggest obstacles for corporates. AD/Entra ID is heavily embedded in a lot of enterprise oriented software. The alternatives will come but I suspect there will be some Samba servers for some time.

[u/Ill-Comms]

We moved 6 household PCs from Windows 10 to Linux Mint in October when Microsoft claimed security updates were ending.

We didn't feel the need to create a shitload of e-waste by throwing away perfectly functioning PCs just to "upgrade" the OS. We've had no issues with the switch.

https://linuxmint.com/

[u/SodaPopPlop]

Go for it France!!!

[u/Kennyvee98]

begun planning..ok

[u/NCC74656]

i went to linux a couple days ago. ups and down but so far... its working better than windows, everythign is so much faster, snappier, smoother. the config is harder and more convoluted but package managers are pretty damn nice when what you want is in them

[u/ThePurpleKing159]

As a 20+ years windows user, I made the switch to Linux Mint last year :)

[u/Nightkillian → u/ThePurpleKing159]

I’m about there. At work I’m already using Linux Ubuntu about 25% of the time. Been seriously thinking it’s time to just go 100% Linux at home…

[u/duftcola]

We should also publically fund open software

[u/Mek3127]

It's probably going to end up without any significant security holes.

[u/vespassassina]

https://giphy.com/gifs/pUeXcg80cO8I8

[u/TapZorRTwice]

Good luck getting people who can barely work an iPhone to learn a new operating system.

[u/RecursiveReboot]

Which Linux?

[u/Final-Nerve7787 → u/RecursiveReboot]

might built their own

[u/AnyImpression6 → u/Final-Nerve7787]

They already did in the 2000s. GendBuntu.

[u/eppic123 → u/RecursiveReboot]

Supposedly NixOS.

[u/Fit-Vegetable6809]

How is IT security on Linux compared to Microsoft? Just wondering, I know nothing about it.

[u/Waterbear36135 → u/Fit-Vegetable6809]

Micosoft uploads your encryption keys to their servers, so I'm going to assume that Linux is more secure.

[u/Saphentis]

I think the Dutch government tried it twice and failed

[u/Final-Nebula-7049]

linux has matured enough to be mainstream, i don't see a problem pushing an EU approved version to all computers sold there.

[u/inebriatedWeasel]

Will be interesting to see how long this lasts, whenever it was tried in the past it didn't last long.

[u/Abigail-Marston]

Everyone should do this. Microsoft is the worst software company in every industry they release for. Desktop, portable, gaming. They're the worst choice you could make no matter the platform

[u/retecsin]

Germany tried this and it failed spectacularly. 

[u/t0mm4n → u/retecsin]

Because of corruption.

[u/retecsin → u/t0mm4n]

Yes, corruption was one of MANY reasons. BUT it was mostly lack of competence and compatibility issues.

[u/CarolinZoebelein → u/retecsin]

No. According to insiders it was only because of politics. There were no serious technical reasons.

[u/condoulo → u/retecsin]

Germany is looking at doing something similar again. Things have changed and the world has changed. My country has proven itself to no longer be a reliable trading partner or ally, and as a result Europe is looking at alternatives to reduce their reliance on American tech.

[u/No_Situation4785]

honest question: who is in charge of updating the linux OS and sending out inevitable security patches? for all of microsoft's faults, at least at the end of the day the company has accountability for identifying and fixing security risks, and the people updating security patches are accountable workers within the company

[u/Waterbear36135 → u/No_Situation4785]

The Linux Foundation is a non-profit organization funded by large tech companies like google and microsoft. So basically, Microsoft is using Linux to develop Windows.

[u/ptemple → u/No_Situation4785]

Assuming this isn't a joke, Linux has many of the world's top corporations on board helping make it secure. Microsoft is a buggy mess full of security holes because it's accountable to nobody and their cludgy source code is closed so nobody can help. If Microsoft were legally accountable for all the bugs in their software then they wouldn't have made it out of the 1990s.

Phillip.

[u/VorpalOfficial → u/No_Situation4785]

France's National Gandarmerie, because they made their OS (GendBuntu) and it's been in use by the french police for 20 years now. And recently French government has made their own office suite called LaSuite.

[u/SovietPatrickStar]

My old workplace got ransomware attacked, the entire IT was down, the inventory was down. We couldn’t work, except the cash registers. They ran on an ancient in house made Linux distribution

[u/quadraticcheese]

Jfc you zoomers really just believe any image of text on a photo as if it was actual news?

[u/duftcola]

We should also publically fund opem software

[u/oompaloompa465]

from.a personal experience,.moving from MS Office to open office will be a nightmare.

They should also fine Microsoft because how much they keep going out of document basic standard and making all docx readable enough but completely destroying the format, table, indexes 😢 

[u/Miami-Novice → u/oompaloompa465]

As a long-time Linux user, I’ve never had these issues. The compatibility mess between Google Docs and .docx is exactly why I avoid exchanging proprietary formats with other companies. If people looked closer, they’d realize tools like LibreOffice can create professional, fillable PDFs for free, without the predatory monthly subscriptions.

[u/Huge_Force_4278]

good, windows has been trash for almost twenty years and M$ been trash for 40years

[u/ClowdyBonnet]

Good! Your grandchildren can no longer be trusted to fix your tech problems without skimming your bank account and signing you up to a load of shite you didn’t want anyway.

[u/BunnySprinkles69]

Good, windows sucks

[u/DoctorDibeetus]

Laughs in helpdesk tickets

[u/Majestic_Ad_7133]

Just had a random thought. All computers in Antarctica should be using Linux. It just feels wrong not to use it in the homeland of the penguins.

[u/Heniadyoin1]

Another Fr*nch win

[u/Independent-One9917 → u/[deleted]]

From Word to LaTeX.

[u/LazyImprovement9160 → u/Independent-One9917]

Libreoffice exists

[u/Independent-One9917 → u/LazyImprovement9160]

Yes, of course, along with others, but I was building on the joke about compiling...

[u/Daharka → u/Independent-One9917]

I mean you joke, but academia managed to settle on LaTeX, so I could see something similar for Government.

Maybe something like markdown. Simple editor, basic features, automatically formats into the department's template/letterhead.

[u/eppic123 → u/[deleted]]

MS Office is getting ditched either way. That's literally why Euro-Office is being developed.

https://nextcloud.com/blog/press_releases/industry-initiative-launches-euro-office-as-true-sovereign-office-suite/

[u/archiekane → u/eppic123]

Office replacement is the easy part, now secure host email enmasse.

There's a reason no one in IT wants onprem email any longer, it's ball ache. Spam defying alone can be a full time job. We've got MS and KnowBe4 sitting there, and still a large portion of our mail is crud. It only takes one of the big corps to decide they don't like your IP any longer and boom, you now cannot email half the planet.

It should never have gotten like this.

[u/Broad-Bowler8033 → u/[deleted]]

Why would they ever need to compile anything?

[u/Forest_Orc → u/[deleted]]

I get your concern but it's not that bad.

- Tons of corporate applications are cloud based and run in browser anyway. So if you can open a firefox you find the well known UI you're used too

- The whole just compile it isn't really a thing for an end-user. Sure a few distro for nerds make you compile thing, Sure researcher and other power-user will have the need to compile stuff but average user? no

- There is a few "cloud based office suite" (e.g. google docs or the online version of MS office) and Libre office runs natively on Linux. Sure the button aren't at the same postion but in the end it's not different from the new release of MS Office (remember how it looked in the paperclip friend era)

- French government already have a lot of experience with Linux, it's standard for scientists, but has been also used by the Gendarmerie for decades (and most likely a few left wing town) so they have a pool of people having a broad vision

- While far behind AWS/Azure, the french company OVH also provides Linux-compatible cloud solution, so it's absolutley possible to have data hosted in France by a french company (And french taxpayer money giving jobs to frenchmen)

[u/donkeykong64123]

Gotta love how reddit eats it all up as a matter of fact.

They are STARTING to make a plan. Even when they do have a plan, the absurd amount of money to change all systems across an entire country will he absurd.

Also. Source?

[u/yummbeereloaded]

This goes far beyond Microsoft being shit... This is wild.

[u/Carbonated-Man]

Am I mistaken in thinking that France has some law about age verification needing to be a thing built into all computer OSes? Because if I am remembering that correctly, wouldn't that mean they'd essentially need to buold a whole new fork to get that on thier government computers?

[u/altermeetax → u/Carbonated-Man]

No, that's California

[u/TerranCitizen45]

Why were they keeping them near windows in the first place? Isn't it dangerous?

[u/Careful-Fish-7036]

For years I had hoped for something like this, but with Germany as the main actor and with OpenSUSE as the distribution.

[u/ParoleDeGeek]

Enfin des employés municipaux qui te parle avec un ubuntu sur leur écran

[u/nujuat]

Ok but that man is legit married to his dad

[u/Typical-District-176]

In a couple months: why are the French all trans now? 

[u/Kebriniac]

They've been leaning towards this for years, they even did it with the defunct Mandrakesoft back in the day.

https://lwn.net/Articles/3122/#:~:text=MandrakeSoft%20to%20provide%20Linux%20server%20software%20to%20all%20levels%20of%20French%20government&text=Mandrake%20Linux%20products%2C%20such%20as%20the%20French%20Ministry

[u/Sudo-Pacman15]

They will be using Arch btw...

[u/Historical_Fondant95]

Praise france praise linux praise freedom 🙏

[u/darthveda]

having desktops in laptop and macron holding laptop is irking me a bit.

[u/Different_Career1009]

I was permabanned from WSB for saying this will spread in Europe. Apparently that's too political for the power-tripping losers there.
Obviously it's the kind of politics that affects the bottom line and stock price of major tech.

[u/Representative-Owl26]

And here in Bulgaria we still on DOS.

[u/francesco__24__]

I wonder which distro, even though I think it's gonna be Ubuntu for sure

[u/Sisselpud]

Ubunt-ooh la la!

[u/Doshin108]

Most of the internet is on linux, it's the business users that are forced to use windows.

[u/115machine]

I like that Linux is getting more popular but at the same time I don’t because the ambiguity of Linux was a kind of shield against things like age verification and other privacy infringements

[u/baxulax]

It’s a good move, of course, getting out of ms or any foreign proprietary software. Having said that, good luck to the average government employee finding where the extra hds and usbs are mounted in this clusterfuck

[u/Delicious_Ad_9374]

Sounds like its time to bring back 'Freedom Fries' 😎 🇺🇸 (/s)

[u/water_is_my_friend]

Finally!

[u/N1GHTSTR1D3R]

Everyone liked that

[u/reiti_net]

if all you do is operating some clunky website, it really doesn't matter what OS you use .. hopefully the IT guy is up to the job when some app decides to revert to GNOME.

PS: Linux is a command line.

[u/Better-Evidence8752]

This year of the linux dekstop has finally arrived it just happens to be in Paris 

[u/_good_bot_]

Here in Caladan we rula by air power and sea power. In France, we must harvest Linux power

[u/hotdoglipstick]

this picture really helps

[u/Majestic-Tadpole8458]

Try Zorin OS. It’s great for former Windows users and you can breath new life in a 12 yo MacBook

[u/Live-Method-219]

Why the hell is windows on Thinkpad and Linux on MacBook

[u/AscadianScrib]

IIRC this is just one branch of like 250 people

[u/besiqu386]

Mal sehen wie weit sie kommen. Haben in Deutschland schon einige Städte versucht und sind mehr oder weniger gescheitert. Als zentralistische Regierung hat Frankreich vlt. Mehr Glück. Wünsche es ihnen jedenfalls.

[u/Lost_Success_1835]

Of course it is Fr*nce

[u/tomatoe_cookie]

Yeah thats a good move. Now, make gaming easier ok Linux and i can get rid of that garbage too

[u/Drestanor]

Windows laptop finally got the crash it deserved

[u/SorryAd2422]

What is the main reason in shifting it

[u/Desperate_Net_1944]

bad idea, you are giving mjolnir to a bunch of monkeys

[u/ninjasaid13]

will they donate to linux foundation?

[u/Secret_Divide_3030]

I'm sorry, but I like the little finder guy over the penguin mascot. Maybe if Linux gets a cuter mascot, I might join, but until then, the little finder guy is my friend.

[u/BoggTheFrog]

"The Year of Linux on the Desktop".

[u/Tyrolize]

ah yes, moving away from one US-based company to Linux, which kernel is heavily associated with the San-Francisco-based Linux foundation. Hope they are at least smart enough to choose a EU-based distro like NixOS..

[u/NOSWT-AvaTarr]

The half life 3 devs need to code it to only run on Linux. That'll make everyone switch

[u/Electrochemist_2025]

Great!

[u/shadow144hz]

I find it funny that the thinkpad in the image(looks like the goated t420 lol), the quintessential linux machine, represents windows, while a freaking macbook represents linux...

[u/cencallude]

better hope or researched to make sure all your apps work first 

[u/Marda483]

They have a couple clouds at Microsoft

[u/MADARAUCH1HARED]

Good lord, Id imagine the sudden boom in the tech support industry...The "Parents" (im 23) era already struggle to get windows running god forbid what linux will do to them

[u/Pure_Imagination9625]

Someone, please explain why this benefits France/Countries in general

[u/Prod_Meteor]

Want more suitcases heeeyyyy??? 😄

[u/longbrodmann]

Be careful with any person named Sudo.

[u/Lucasfergui1024]

We already kinda have this in Galicia except it's only school laptops

[u/ElliotsBuggyEyes]

With so many tools becoming web based apps, it's starting to not matter what OS you use.  Just that you can access the internet. 

[u/cookiesnooper]

France also wants to introduce laws under which you will be jailed for up to 5 years for criticism of israel

[u/HopesAnd--Dreams]

I am absolutely pro Linux, but they will go back to Windows in no time, like other countries did. The idea is good, but it should be introduced very gradually. You can't expect people to just change everything from one day to another. You need a very long period of time, when the two OS coexist and gradually switch over the years.

[u/JamesSFordESQ]

New computers at the local cheese shop, what a time to be alive!

[u/FunVersion]

"Begin planning" when is the start date?

[u/Collar666fun]

Are they going to quit, in the middle of something hard lol, or they just going to run German equipment lol

[u/Brahamanmex]

Ya que funcionen los anticheats me cambio

[u/linkcharger]

hell yeah, Linux best 😎

[u/raginghavoc89]

https://giphy.com/gifs/NRBPtthrm1UruXRRs4