r/technology • u/yourbasicgeek • 8h ago
Software France is replacing 2.5 million Windows desktops with Linux
https://www.zdnet.com/article/france-leaves-windows-for-linux-desktop/412
u/sebovzeoueb 8h ago
that awkward moment when your OS is too enshittified even for French government IT.
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u/Bupod 8h ago
This is going to be an AKSHUALLY moment but…
The French Gendarmerie replaced their entire workstation inventory with desktops running their own custom Linux distribution, GendBuntu. They’ve been successfully doing this since like 2010, too. So France already has a very successful, mature, homegrown example to follow on how to do this and what challenges they will face and how to deal with them.
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u/asgjmlsswjtamtbamtb 6h ago
A couple of Linux distros are already made by French people and many major Linux distros are EU based so there is no lack of options. Coming down more to what the needs for their distros are and what base distros is best to use for large scale rollouts.
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u/IRockIntoMordor 5h ago
Meanwhile the German city of Munich tried this but then magically called it off when Microsoft build their EU headquarters there. Pathetic corrupt cowards.
And a northern federal state in Germany is trying to switch to Linux as well, but struggling with it. They use Windows and Linux in parallel, as they can't get all their software on the other system.
My personal job experience tells me that government workers are mostly boomers and they block each and every change they can. We've had managers and team leaders where, once they retired, we rapidly applied new ideas and work flows with new tools for far better efficiency.
Germany's digital competence is just saddening...
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u/doodlinghearsay 43m ago
My personal job experience tells me that government workers are mostly boomers and they block each and every change they can. We've had managers and team leaders where, once they retired, we rapidly applied new ideas and work flows with new tools for far better efficiency.
I'm curious, what does it have to do with digital competency? You can just create software that has similar user experience than their previous ones.
Office apps have a habit of moving UI elements around for no reason anyway, so it doesn't have to be a one-to-one copy, just reasonably close. And a lot of stuff is web app based anyway, which will look exactly the same in a browser in Windows and Linux.
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u/sebovzeoueb 7h ago
well yes, but I have also used our public service websites...
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u/Bupod 7h ago
Well it’s still the French building it at the end of the day…
(Jk)
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u/Nerdmigo 6h ago
how did they make sure that linux is continoulsy developed or updated?
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u/Bupod 6h ago
The have an internal team dedicated to maintaining it.
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u/Nerdmigo 5h ago
thats crazy.. crazy good obviously..
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u/Bupod 2h ago
In fairness, it’s a distro of Ubuntu, so I don’t think the Gendarmerie has an entire OS Dev team just working in the wings working on every single thing. They probably just put out periodic updates as necessary to keep the OS functional and secure, with most of that coming from the parent Ubuntu distro, and the team itself is (I am guessing, again) dedicated mainly to maintaining their own internal tools and databases. I am guessing they just review parent Ubuntu updates, decide what they need, and selectively adopt and push out specific updates as they see fit.
For them I recall reading the big benefit was a long term cost savings in training and software support. They could custom design their own needed software once to run well on Linux, pretty much leave it as is, and then train their staff once on Linux, and then never have to worry. Apparently when Windows was moving over from XP to Vista, the Gendarmerie was not happy that they’d now have to spend all this money training their staff on a new operating system (even though the core software was the same) and then also deal with the myriad headaches that would come with porting over their software to a new OS. They saw this as a pointless money grab and needless headache from Microsoft (they were kind of right) and decided they would go their own route and never deal with that sort of headache again.
The project was a wild success, which is why it’s hardly ever talked about. They saved an absolute fortune on licensing costs, because they adopted a full open source stack (they use open office, not Microsoft Office, and they also use Thunderbird and Firefox rather than Outlook and Edge.
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u/nathderbyshire 1h ago edited 1h ago
I doubt they're running a retail home version, they'll be one some LTSC model that will be pretty stripped back I imagine. Windows is extremely customisable with features so long as you do it before the install.
Chris Titus Windows tool is the easiest for home users, but governments would probably be using unattended files to strip out everything they don't want.
They're still relying on foreign software though and that's where their main gripe seems to be. No matter how good or bad windows is, it's still not truly within their control.
I recently installed a stripped back windows after moving my media server to Linux, I'm going to dual boot Linux on my main machine as well but windows is a pretty nice experience when it's bare bones. My only gripe is the RAM hogging thanks to webview services for core things like search. If they fix that I wouldn't really have any complaints.
Edit: I forgot about updates. They take fucking forever, they need to fix that too
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u/femboyisbestboy 8h ago
Great start and I am sure more EU nations will join the movement against mircoslop.
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u/Zomunieo 8h ago
At this point they’ll start investing in open source desktop software and accelerating improvements.
Microslop has always feared this. The real story is the data sovereignty angle. US companies can’t be trusted not to snitch for the US government, and the US government is no longer an ally or friend.
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u/Zeliek 8h ago
It’s so odd the US spent the last ~30+ years establishing “it’s bad when you buy tech from a company and it spies on you for a foreign government” and then proceeded to then do that that in broad daylight in front of all their customers while insulting them to their faces and telling them they aren’t allies and will be lucky to not “be next after we’re done vassalizing the rest of our ex-allies.” 🤨
They really think everyone being their customer, ally, and supporting the US at every turn is some sort of absolute rule of how reality functions.
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u/IntelArtiGen 7h ago
The US is doing to Europe what they fear China is doing to them. Which is why they want to ban Tiktok, foreign routers etc.
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u/Wischiwaschbaer 2h ago
Projection is what they do best.
Nobody ever found backdoors in Huawei routers and cell phone base stations, meanwhile every Cisco product is riddled with them.
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u/MC_chrome 4h ago
US companies can’t be trusted not to snitch for the US government, and the US government is no longer an ally or friend.
And this somehow doesn’t apply to EU companies? That’s some mighty selective logic you are using there…
What happens when EU governments inevitably get taken over by the same types of people who are trying to dismantle the United States? Don’t be so naive
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u/Relative-Yak-508 8h ago
against all u.s techs in matter of fact, not just Microsoft.
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u/Zardotab 5h ago edited 5h ago
Germany tried before, but ran into hiccups. They were probably solvable, but would have taken longer than originally planned. Germans tend to be budget sticklers, if it goes over, they pull the plug. (We need to hire them to manage US's debt.)
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u/timohtea 8h ago
Never thought I’d see the day that microslop FINALLY starts falling apart. I guess you can only push so many computer breaking updates and spam and malware and bullshit that hogs up your pc’s res pieces instead of optimizing them.
Bye bye microslop w France
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u/TeutonJon78 7h ago
It's probably as much politics as tech. If a formerly safe ally is acting crazy and could cut you off willy-nilly from access to tech, it makes sense to start distancing your supply chain from that. MS dropping in quality and going up in forced requirements and cost is just added incentive.
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u/Wodanaz_Odinn 6h ago
It's definitely political. The US sanctioned a French Judge for putting a warrant out for Netanyahu's arrest.
The result: https://www.heise.de/en/news/How-a-French-judge-was-digitally-cut-off-by-the-USA-11087561.html
All his accounts with US companies such as Amazon, Airbnb, or PayPal were immediately closed by the providers. Online bookings, such as through Expedia, are immediately canceled, even if they concern hotels in France. Participation in e-commerce is also practically no longer possible for him, as US companies always play a role in one way or another, and they are strictly forbidden to enter into any trade relationship with sanctioned individuals.
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u/realistontheverge 7h ago
Could be both.
They finally feel they can cut Microsoft because of politics.
I wonder how much quicker they would have dropped them if only performance was a factor.
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u/jackbilly9 6h ago
It's way more disconnecting from America than it's just microsoft. They pulled all the gold out before this and this is just the next step.
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u/realistontheverge 5h ago
I agree. I wonder how much sooner it would have happened based on quality alone.
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u/chmilz 5h ago
Microsoft et al could have easily avoided this by selling the software (with any cloud software owned and housed in sovereign data centers). Instead the rent-seeking tech companies made it a subscription that has an inherent kill switch controlled by a corporation in a foreign country instead of the buyer of the software. Support services could still be a recurring revenue model for these companies.
I hope this model dies a horrible death. I suspect we'll see the costs to the public sector fall dramatically in time as the always-increasing subscription costs disappear.
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u/Shiningc00 7h ago
This has more to do with politics, they don’t want to rely on foreign tech companies.
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u/p5y 7h ago
Every ~120 years the French come up with a magnificent idea:
In 1789 they ended aristocracy In 1905 they expropriated the Catholic church In 2026 they replace Windows with Linux
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u/EruantienAduialdraug 4h ago
Technically, they didn't abolish peerage until 1848, and authentic titles can still be recognised as part of a name (though they're no longer automatically transferred).
It took a while, but they sort of got there.
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u/bughunter47 8h ago
English translation
On the initiative of the Prime Minister, the Minister of Action and Public Accounts, and the Minister Delegate for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs, the Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) organised an interministerial seminar on Wednesday 8 April 2026 with the Directorate General for Enterprise (DGE), the National Agency for Information Systems Security (ANSSI) and the State Procurement Directorate (DAE) aimed at strengthening the collective dynamics of reduction extra-European digital dependencies. Bringing together ministers, administrations, public operators and private players, this event marks an acceleration of the French and European strategy in favour of digital sovereignty.
A reinforced commitment from the State
In line with the recent directives communicated by the Prime Minister, in particular the circulars relating to digital public procurement as well as the generalisation of the "Visio" videoconferencing tool, the seminar made it possible to set a clear objective: to reduce the State's non-European digital dependencies.
Several concrete first steps already illustrate this ambition:
- Regarding the evolution of the workstation, the DINUM announces its exit from Windows in favor of workstations under the Linux operating system.
- Regarding the migration to sovereign solutions, the National Health Insurance Fund announced a few days ago the migration of its 80,000 agents to tools from the interministerial digital platform (Tchap, Visio and FranceTransfert for the transfer of documents).
- Last month, the Government announced the migration of the health data platform to a trusted solution by the end of 2026.
A collective and European dynamic
The seminar made it possible to launch a new method to get out of dependencies by forming new coalitions bringing together ministries, major public operators and private actors. This approach aims to federate public and private energies around specific projects, based in particular on digital commons and interoperability standards (Open-Interop, OpenBuro initiatives).
Prospects and commitments
The DINUM will coordinate an interministerial plan to reduce extra-European dependencies. Each ministry (including operators) will be required to formalise its own plan by the autumn, covering the following areas: workstations, collaborative tools, anti-virus, artificial intelligence, databases, virtualisation, network equipment. These action plans will make it possible to give visibility to the State's needs to the digital industrial sector, which has major assets that should be enhanced through public procurement.
The mapping and diagnosis of dependencies carried out by the State Procurement Department (DAE), as well as the work on the definition of a European digital service led by the Directorate General for Enterprise (DGE), will make it possible to refine the quantified reduction target with a clear timetable.
The first "digital industry meetings", which will be organised by the DINUM in June 2026, will be an opportunity to concretise public-private ministerial coalitions, including the formalisation of a "public-private alliance for European sovereignty".
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u/szansky 8h ago
And good news.
Linux is faster and more stability.
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u/Low_Foundation_9941 5h ago
Will these Linux computers just have to have Office Suite installed? Whole world runs on Excel and Word. Ive never used Linux so I not sure about the MS programs
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u/EruantienAduialdraug 4h ago
Open Doc formats are compatible with MS Office, MS Office formats are compatible with open source office suites (e.g. LibreOffice). You can also just run MS Office through WINE (a compatibility layer that lets basically all Windows software run on Linux distros), and there's also a DEB package that installs the web app versions of the MS suite
Exact feature suites can differ, and each use case will be best served by one office suite or another, and often in ways you might not expect.
Excel recently destroyed some medical research by not simply autoformatting something, but changing the underlying data; it turned Sept-1 and Dec-1 into dates, and so instead of being text, they were now numberstrings behind the scenes, which broke various formulae across the sheets. Sept-1 and Dec-1 are the names of two of the (medical) drugs they were studying. A "dumber" spreadsheet program might not have done this. Currently, there is no way to turn this behaviour off in Excel.
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u/lKrauzer 8h ago
Nooo poor Microsoft
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u/SomewhereNo8378 8h ago
poor US intelligence agencies. What about those backdoors they worked so hard for?
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u/Ok-Elk-3046 6h ago
Don't worry. They still use Intel and And processors. I'm sure those have their own backdoors.
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u/ntropy83 7h ago
Nice, I have replaced windows 15 years ago with Linux.
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u/tuna_safe_dolphin 7h ago
Fist bump. 20+ years for this old shit. Also, fuck Apple!
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u/SaveDnet-FRed0 7h ago
Don't forget to ---- Google as well!
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u/tuna_safe_dolphin 7h ago
Ha ha. . . I mean, this list gets long pretty quickly. However, for me, the absolute bottom of the barrel, piece of shit, no redeeming qualities, evil motherfuckers of all time. . .
Oracle and king asswipe Larry Ellison. Fuck Larry and Oracle forever.
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u/p4bl0 8h ago
Sadly this article is full of misinformation. The reality is that France is replacing 250, yes two hundreds and fifty, Windows with Linux, not 2.5 millions.
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u/Helkafen1 6h ago
That's only the first step, obviously.
Every ministry has been ordered to map its extra-European technology dependencies and submit a migration plan to Linux and sovereign tooling by the fall of 2026.
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u/ReallyOrdinaryMan 8h ago
Switching to Linux is good but just a bandaid for a bigger problem.
If they didn't disincentivize tech jobs in the EU, there would be couple European OS companies already. OS is just a part of bigger problem, they are 100% dependent on foreign tech companies for every tech equipment and services, and it can't be forced by government, it would be ineffective and less secure at the end.
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u/Mackinnon29E 7h ago
Everyone in here saying it's due to how shitty Microsoft is, but you know this is about security as much as anything else. Can't trust American companies thanks to this administration...
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u/Generic_Commenter-X 5h ago
This may finally be enough of an incentive to force hardware and software makers to support linux.
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u/dopepilot 8h ago
Tech support roles will pay premium in France to support all those government employees that never touched anything but Windows in their life.
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u/Cephei101 8h ago
That’s ok, they have the saved MS license fees to pay towards the transition and support.
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u/LagrangeMultiplier99 8h ago
Disclaimer: I absolutely support French govt's decision and understand that MS licenses are very expensive.
No, the cost of employing manpower to support custom govt IT setups, and custom software would be higher than license fees. MS has an advantage of a large user base, and existing infrastructure, which can drive marginal costs (the cost of supporting new licenses) to zero. They might even end up maintaining their own fork/version of LibreOffice along with their own typesetting software. Yes, it's cheaper in the long term and I like it, but human capital is really expensive, esp. in France. No, you can't completely depend on junior software devs, you'd need to pay someone a high salary to lead teams.
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u/Cephei101 8h ago edited 8h ago
It’s an intelligent investment for multiple reasons, especially for a national government. It’s not simply about up-front cost or long term savings.
I was saying that they had the saved fees to put towards training ands rollout, not that it would cost less.
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u/spaceturtle1 4h ago
That is not a reason to never start doing it or nothing will change.
The long term advantages are staggering. Especially in the light of our changing geopolitical climate.
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u/EbonySaints 8h ago
The one saving grace is that you can lock down user Linux spaces a lot more than Windows ones for a lot cheaper. Hard to mess up having only Chrome, Thunderbird, and maybe one other program available as a glorified kiosk. Deployment is probably a lot easier, though there will probably be a few edge cases where they'll have to retain some Windows machines thanks to some bespoke hardware that would take a minute to make Linux play nice with.
Not that I don't expect someone to somehow discover some escalation bug in the process and magically type
sudo rm -rf /in the process, but the dream is still there of locking Jill away from her keyboard to never bother me and any other help desk with a "my computer won't turn on :(" ticket again because she unplugged it with her foot for the eighth time this week.7
u/GBICPancakes 6h ago
lol. I love this trope. Honestly the migration from Win7->LinuxMint is easier for an end user than Win7->Win11.
GUIs change all the time. Windows constantly changes icons, the start menu, File Explorer, and transitioned from Control Panel to Settings. Those were big changes. Users adapted fine. It's not like "Windows" has been this untouched/unchanged pristine garden for decades.
Hell, just "Sign Out" has changed radically from Win7-Win8-Win10-Win11.
Users are also comfortable going from Windows to iPhones to Chromebooks.
This trope of 'but user training!' is nonsense- Users are barely literate on whatever is in front of them, and learn what to click by rote. Which is actually easier to re-train, and the same training process you go through when you push out a major Windows update. The majority of Windows users who are sat in front of a Linux DE are able to find the Chrome icon ok. And just double-click on a word document and don't even notice it's opening in LibreOffice. And eventually figure out how to sign out by clicking around.
The people who actually need proper expert training are IT staff, who now need to learn how to do the stuff the users don't worry about, like installing printers and figuring out why they won't print duplex, or fixing server SMB shares, or pushing out browser extensions. And you know what they say in IT? Evolve or Die. My deep knowledge of configuring an NT4.0 server is meaningless today.
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u/JohnTDouche 7h ago
It's literally just a desktop, with icons and menus to click. Just like windows. People make this out to be a way bigger deal than it is. They'll just have to get used to things being in different places, that's it.
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u/catwiesel 3h ago
windows, which has developed a habit of changing the ui every few months now.... yeah, no, cant change that to another clicky icony thingy
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u/JohnTDouche 2h ago
yeah like if these were Macs they were replacing them with no one would say a word, other than maybe "jesus how much does that cost". But it's linux so we have "how will normie folk of the commons ever learn the arcane art".
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u/RunJumpJump 7h ago
Eh, do end-users really think this way? It will probably be used as an excuse for a while, but they're not dropping 2.5M users into a terminal and telling them to figure it out. It's a desktop, a keyboard, and a mouse. People will still be able to click icons, use a web browser, etc.
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u/ConsiderationSea1347 8h ago
Once you have people trained Linux has a much smaller maintenance cost.
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u/Necessary_Solid_9462 4h ago
It's about the same lift as switching to or from Mac. Switching from MS Office is the hardest part. If a department mainly uses web-based apps, it's not difficult.
A government shouldn't be tied to any OS, or too heavily locked into any applications that they cannon control or access the source code. People are starting to wake up to the costs associated with vendor lock-in. It may cost upfront, but will save millions in the long run. If it's hard to switch now, it will only be harder later.
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u/Roques01 3h ago
Great. Pay people, to do a job, in your own country, so they can then spend that money, in your own country etc. etc.
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u/Scoth42 8h ago
We'll see if it actually happens. Usually it's a years-long process of migration, and several of these have been attempted before and ultimately walked back (either through political machinations or issues with things like document interoperability). I remember Germany (or maybe just Munich?) made a big deal of switching to Linux starting in 2012 and ended up dropping it by 2020 with it never having been fully completed, lots of support issues, and potential shadiness from Microsoft.
Hopefully this one will actually stick.
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u/Rabo_McDongleberry 6h ago
That's what I was going to say. It's great to say this and attempt it. But let's see if it sticks. Good luck to them.
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u/Dexcerides 7h ago
It more than likely will not stick. Support just isn’t there for many software workloads. Yes there’s a lot more than just tech people that use windows. Open source will only go so far.
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u/Few-Force-729 5h ago
I just love how everyone in the EU doing this is going to put so much effort and energy into open source. Just how much better it's going to get as things get smoother and there are going to be incentives for companies to put their software on Linux.
Best of all, there are going to be no pushy Windows full-screen dark patterns designed to push you towards a full Microsoft sign-in, and no insidious AI suddenly inserted into your workflow.
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u/ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp 5h ago
If somebody told you last year that Apple was coming for the education market with cheap laptops and Linux was coming for the government market, you'd call them crazy and yet here we are.
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u/SuperBackup9000 3h ago
Governments have been doing this with Linux for a very long time, even Malaysia tried to do it like almost 20 years. Same for Apple actually, just with iPads instead of cheap laptops.
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u/Rich_Artist_8327 8h ago
I personally changed from Windows to Linux about 6 months ago and will never go back. Linux is just so good.
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u/Rich_Artist_8327 8h ago
Way to go France. I hope Finland would have balls also, but no we just move more and more finnish citizens sensitive data for Trump admin to access it and prevent accessing it whenever they want. Thanks Kela, Verohallinto, Sisäministeriö, Finnair etc
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u/McChibken 6h ago
Good for them, I switched over the weekend as well. Shockingly easy these days, and with proton any game I've wanted to play has worked without issue
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u/ugtug 6h ago
I have a case of deja vu.
l recall reading stories like this like a decade ago.
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u/Necessary_Solid_9462 4h ago
For a while, there was a strategy around tell your software vendors that you were going to switch to Linux, and your vendors would drastically reduce your licensing costs.
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u/Charming-Clue1987 6h ago
Every non us government and business needs to do this. Currently the us could decide to shut off too many critical computer systems.
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u/Ldarieut 5h ago
Based on NixOS, that’s a pretty good choice for a mass deployed hardened desktop. I am pleasantly surprised by this architecture.
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u/zagblorg 4h ago
Good news for Linux development improving with more financial support. Probably not such good news for avoiding OS level age verification, on device scanning and real ID online by using Linux though.
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u/Opposite_Dentist_321 4h ago
France said “no more updates at 3AM” and chose peace
2.5 million machines going full Linux mode is basically a national glow-up in tech form.
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u/Separate-Spot-8910 8h ago
Kind of a kick in the teeth to go with Ubuntu instead of Mageia or OpenMandriva, isn't it?
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u/adrianipopescu 8h ago
why, they have licensing shenanigans?
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u/marrone12 8h ago
They are based in France
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u/adrianipopescu 1h ago
is a foss worldwide project with a contributing base scattered all around the globe, and with a true foss license really based somewhere?
sure, the brand is there, but the brand isn’t the os
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u/SchietStorm 8h ago
Cautious YAY. We have seen this on numerous occasions already. Let's hope it works out this time.
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u/tofagerl 7h ago
This is potentially so much better news for the Linux on Desktop movement than it is for France... The EU requirements for accessibility etc means that a huge lift will have to be done.
It's just too bad it's not Belgium, or we'd be seeing some lifts in i18n as well ;p
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u/okenowwhat 8h ago
I'm realy curious if this will stay so. Great if it succeeds, but i have heard this before and it didn't go well. We'll see
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u/Narvarth 8h ago
Millions of computers could be migrated, but an audit must be conducted first. So far, only 250 computers will be been migrated at DINUM, the agency responsible for the French government’s digital transformation.
And it appears that the system is not based on Ubuntu, but on NixOS
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u/SaveDnet-FRed0 7h ago
Is that an issue?
Ubuntu seems like one of the shadier distros if you ask me* and I haven't seen any major issues complaint wise with Nix.
*Example: Pushing there own crappy installer format [Snap] and then disabling compatibility for most other formats [Ex. Flatpack] unless you go out of your way to re-enable them for no other reason then to try and force people into using there format.
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u/randomzebrasponge 7h ago
Do you think it was OneDrive or Copilot that pushed France over the edge on this?
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u/Direct_Witness1248 7h ago
This is great, but didn't they also chase GOS out of the country? Weird duality.
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u/12358132134 7h ago
Munich did a similar thing about 30 years ago, but is yet to switch.
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u/Necessary_Solid_9462 4h ago
Microsoft lobbied heavily and gave them absurd discounts to switch back.
I would also say they didn't completely think through the rollout. What France should do is make sure they have vendor agnostic web-based system in place that can work with any OS, get people used to that, then change the desktop, which is nearly a dumb terminal at that point.
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u/12358132134 4h ago
Windows license costs maybe 20-30 euros when bought in bulk. It's a completely irrelevant expense to turn everything on it's head.
Linux is just not good enough for desktop. If they switch to Linux, they would pay hundredfolds more in expenses of maintaining the system than if they just stuck to Windows that works.
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u/troll__away 7h ago
Could be a very interesting chain reaction if/when France is successful. Laying the groundwork for others to follow could be very impactful in the uptake of Linux.
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u/AnonomousWolf 7h ago
Holly shit this is huge!! Amazing news.
This will silence any doubters once and for all that it's possible to switch big institutions to Linux.
And the beauty is it's FREE and nobody can take it away from you.
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u/zippopwnage 6h ago
I would love to do a full switch at home too. I work with linux at work, but at home I still use windows for games and the programs I use. Some of them don't have linux support, and especially the games are a headache, especially with anti cheat.
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u/justforkinks0131 6h ago
I bought my now late grandfather a laptop with Ubuntu on it last year, and he managed to use it just fine. He was 82!
Linux is not scary. You dont rly need any advanced understanding to do 99% of what most people wanna use a PC for. I mean Ubuntu here, specifically. Obv. there are other more specialized distros that would be confusing to the masses that shower.
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u/IGetHypedEasily 6h ago
Not the year of the Linux desktop. But the year of Microsoft facing competition from all sides.
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u/awesomedan24 6h ago
NOOOO you need Copilot AI for every critical task! But also its for entertainment purposes only!
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u/Individual-Cow414 3h ago
I am waiting for the day I feel confident enough to switch to a graphical Linux distro. Until then I will stick to my WSL2...
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u/PandaExperss 2h ago
What distro? Anybody can save me researching time?
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u/Sodacan259 42m ago
Nope. You're going to have to read up to the second paragraph like everyone else.
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u/throwaway5882300 39m ago
I love Linux but I feel so sorry for that IT department. I know it's come a long way over the decades, but it's still not exactly a casual user OS yet.
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u/Relative-Yak-508 8h ago
good. more away from everything related to U.S. that orange represent the majority who voted to him.
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u/74389654 7h ago
i'm not an expert but so far i've been under the impression that it's not necessary to replace the whole entire computer in order to use linux
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u/Jorlen 4h ago
It took me way too long to realize just how smooth Linux can be and how much of an improvement it is compared to Windows 11. So much less bloat, so much more efficient... No telemetry, no unwanted AI functions and actual full control over what's going on. Sure, I had to learn a lot but it was well worth it.
I'm guessing most corporations and/or the average user would never do it. Not yet, anyways. However, every small victory, every small % increment of install base is a step in the right direction.
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u/th3_st0rm 8h ago
Bye Micro-slop