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French government says it's ditching Windows for Linux — country accelerates plans to ditch US-based software in digital sovereignty push (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 134 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 13 hours ago

Also, Proton

[–] Quicky@piefed.social 64 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

Absolutely wild brand activation tactics from the Linux marketing team.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I fucking hate that so many of them are going to Ubuntu berceuse of course they are

[–] sonofearth@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Well they want “official” tech support from a company which they can hold accountable for any problems.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 56 minutes ago

"oops sorry we switched back to manual approval mode because our invincible foolproof package management system pushed out malware again"

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Well, yes.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago

Oh, and Windows actively trying its absolute hardest to make everyone hate it for about a decade.

You're off by about thirty years.

[–] Draegur@piefed.social 27 points 18 hours ago

Linux's message to the world: "The I-Told-You-So's Shall Continue Until Installation Rates Improve."

we brought this upon ourselves by failing to listen to the FOSS gods.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Apocalypse?

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 6 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Covid. I'm being slightly hyperbolic.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

There are 7 million people who would agree with you, if they could.

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

A decade? I had a Windows ME upgrade disc - M$ has been at this for a long time.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

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.