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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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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Using NixOS as an imaging tool by distributing a config is pretty neat and I would love to see it happen. I'm surprised they were competent enough to see that route; I wonder who's behind this initiative?

[–] ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's the Interministerial Digital Directorate, they are very competent.

https://github.com/cloud-gouv

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Whoa neat, thanks!