France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins

I hope the other EU countries follow this example. 
Though I do expect that someone in Washington will once again start saying nasty things about the EU and about Macron personally- just as he did recently.

I need to follow this. If they pull it off, that’s probably the Linux fork I will want, as it’ll be the most like a traditional “old-school” Windows desktop as it can be.

And that’s what I want for my next computer, not Windows 12.

Good idea. The USA has become too much of a security risk to unnecessarily use their software. Office should also be removed.

Not a bad idea, it’d also be nice to see a proper state-backed Linux distro and potentially an EU-standard distro.

Some European countries have companies within them producing distros but a proper state procurement drive and potentially even funding for a standardised one would be a massive boon to stable computing within the EU and even beyond, as a Brit it’d make it easier to decide what one to standardise on for me.

(Also yes UK government, this is a hint that you *should* have been hyping Canonical up in trade talks like the US does MS and also maybe using it as the UK reference distro)

Put your money where your mouth at.

I hate Macron and his government but at least he’s not just virtue signaling about cutting the cord with America. It’ll take time for sure but every step counts.

Rare W for France, i hope entire Europe follows in their step, in every platfrom

I think they will need to get this into education to really see wider adoption.

Windows users (including IT teams) are very reluctant to give up what they know.

Why didn’t the EU as a whole collaborate on a new Linux Desktop? Less cost, better quality

The university where I work here in Denmark just moved the exchange email server they had physical on campus to a microsoft cloud. So we are sadly moving in the other direction.

can’t wait for that microsoft salt when they actually pull it off

Good luck to them. With our current tech, I’m sure that they’ll do good.

Eu governments not using windows anymore will be a Superloss for the USA, especially since businesses likely will follow somewhere.

I think this is great news both for all parties involved.

Governments don’t have to rely on American Corporations to do their basic functions and Linux might actually get a widely available distro that’s regular user proof.

Don’t get me wrong, most Linux distros are absolutely fine 99% of times, but when something goes wrong there’s no way you’ll able to fix it even as relatively savvy tech user.

Back when i used windows if i had an issue i would just google the problem and always find plenty of cases of others having the same problem and how to solve them.

With Linux on the other hand if you search for your issue you’ll either find nothing or you’ll find solutions that are meant for different distros and don’t work for you so unless you’re some Linux wizard you might as well give up.

I’ve not been able to move to Linux. I tried it. But given I play old games which barely work to begin with on Windows, it’s completely hopeless on Linux.

Well. Not completely hopeless, other people have done it. Some of them, at least. It just seems to require a degree…

France moving out of Murica-tech. France having its own AI models. My mom could have gotten French citizenship as a kid… why didn’t I get it?!

Apparently, the lack of adoption of Linux desktop is down to pre-installation of the OS. I don’t think many people even consider, let alone install their own OS. Maybe some legislation to have a choice on new machines would help.

I use Linux for my server but I’d love to move to desktop full time but there’s still software that’s not supported which is a shame, if there was more adoption, these apps might eventually be supported.

Wexit

Is this finally the year of Linux on the desktop? I want to see you guys using LibreOffice.