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France has ditched Windows 11 for Linux on 2.5 million government PCs (www.techradar.com)
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Frances switchted to Linux on 2.5 million PCs

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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm seems pretty reasonable for a cloud PC.

I just ran the costs through the Azure calculator, and a D2asV6 system with a 100GB drive and licenseing running 16hrs a day, 30 days a month would cost approximately 1200 dollars annually, so 99 bucks a year seems like a steal.

And a D2asV6 is not a lot of compute power. 2 cores, 8Gb ram.

In summary, Azure is fucking expensive if you are keeping VMs online all the time.