French government says it's ditching Windows for Linux — country accelerates plans to ditch US-based software in digital sovereignty push
2026-04-11 06:39 UTC
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@ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 2026-04-11 07:03
It's finally the year of the Linux Desktop! And all it took was an apocalypse, the rise of the fourth reich, (soon to be) two global recessions, and continuing unprecedented damage to the world order / faith in international law. Oh, and Windows actively trying its absolute hardest to make everyone hate it for about a decade. But hey,... progess! The more penguins, the better.
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@VirtuePacket@lemmy.zip 2026-04-11 14:41
Good. As an American, fuck Microsoft. And fuck Trump.
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@BiomedOtaku@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-11 22:57
Every country should do this. I'm an American however my country is turning into shit by the day.
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@TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2026-04-11 14:14
Wait until Le Pen or Bardella comes into power and remake the deal with American tech oligarchs, undoing Macron's push for strategic autonomy. As long as the right in France isn't killed, any attempt of decoupling will only be coupled back to US, because fascists have internationalise their ideas and coordination.
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@pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 2026-04-11 11:54
would be great if they did phones next.
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@cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-04-11 07:22
The French are doing the right thing. Getting independent from the US software dominance takes time and the US regime could decide any day to use it stupidly and brutally. I just wish my government had as much foresight.
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@CLMA31@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-11 17:01
Hopefully more follow! Supporting European mobile OS would be huge step next
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@Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-11 09:29
I have read items like this for years about some jurisdiction in Europe switching to FOSS. These things take a long time to implement, lot of retraining of people that have used MS for decades. The cost is significant since you still need to pay the license fees and have support during the transition.
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@Samsy@lemmy.ml 2026-04-11 07:46
The French Revolution 2.0 where is the Person who says: if they dislike Microsoft why dont they use mac?
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@Vince@lemmy.world 2026-04-11 08:32
Hmm, it would be interesting if all these governments switching to Linux would make their own distros.
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-04-11 09:35
What does he play?
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@Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2026-04-11 09:39
People always find it strange when I say the biggest reason for womens liberation happening is because of hitler, but it's true. Prior to America entering WWII, men went to work, women stayed home and did the dishes. That's just how life was. Then all the men needed to go overseas. But that left huge holes in the domestic workforce. Life simply couldn't move forward without someone to stock the shelves of a grocery store, or fix cars, or drive the city bus. Work that up until then was historically men only. But....there were not enough men between 1941-1945 to fill the roles across all forms of work, but work needed to get done. So women were brought into temporarily fill the roles until the men got back. Then the war ends, the men come back, and suddenly the women don't want to go back home and do dishes. So now you've got women back home, who want to be back at work, and men at work seeing more and more women not leaving. And over the next decade or so, more and more women either never left the workplace, or came back to work. And then you had the homes where the men wouldn't let their wives work. Which caused fights. And even though they were individual fights, these same fights were happening all over the country. As more women realized they aren't alone, it became less of a fight with your husband, and more of a fight against traditional gender norms. And thus the womens liberation movement really gained traction. And it all goes back to hitler creating the environment that allowed the whole butterfly effect to start. And thats what you're seeing with trump and linux. Hitler didn't give a damn about womens rights. But butterfly effect, he's the biggest reason it happened. Trump doesn't give a damn about Linux, but here we go again.
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@Draegur@piefed.social 2026-04-11 08:03
poison is generally bad but if it kills the cancer they call it chemotherapy i guess! ha.
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@ripcord@lemmy.world 2026-04-11 14:32
I had DOS 6.2 which blatantly stole stuff from Stacker, and Windows 3 which explicitly had code to make it seem like competitor DR DOS was unstable.