French government says it's ditching Windows for Linux — country accelerates plans to ditch US-based software in digital sovereignty push

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.

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.

Also, Proton

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

You're off by about thirty years.

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

Apocalypse?

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.

poison is generally bad but if it kills the cancer they call it chemotherapy i guess! ha.

*microslop

My take on it: most people do have foresight or at least understand the issue, but they still don't act on it or ignore it as long as the status quo is still convenient enough. So it's purely a matter of pain and inconvenience. Once enough pain and inconvenience has accumulated, they're much more ready to make an actual switch. Thankfully, with Microsoft's services also becoming increasingly enshittified (forced AI chatbot integrations everywhere, even more cloud dependencies, ever more expensive subscriptions, ...) there's also Microsoft shooting itself in the foot a bit in order to accelerate this process. Vile actions from the current US regime are also accelerating the process of course.

This is why, as an Aussie, I'm very disappointed in our subservience to the US all the time. It's honestly pathetic. We abandoned our initial plan for, admittedly not cutting edge tech, french-built submarines to go with far better-specced US-built subs but who knows if we'll ever actually get any of them.

Honestly, I don't trust the sepos not to hamstring them somehow.

Jolla is the only real option software wise

Micro$oft isn't America.

Micro$oft is a special interest inside America, maybe, at best, American-government-aligned, assuming the government is heavily influenced or captured by Micro$oft.

If Ameirca is first and foremost its people, the megacorp and the oligarchical interests (economic royalists) inside America are at odds with most of the American population. The megacorps and the oligarchs can be considered anti-American.

Anyway, what's bad for Micro$oft is not always bad for America. What's good for America is not always good for Micro$oft. These interests are not all on the same page, to put it politely.

(this is just me agreeing with you in a longer form)

In this case it's the entire government top-down. It's not just a jurisdiction. They have probably weighed the cost benefits of transitioning vs throwing money at Microsoft forever

probably getting shouted down by the french policymakers who made this decision along the lines of "Apple is an American company too and we're SICK OF AMERICA'S SHIT"

Aren't they on like French Revolution 4.0 or 5.0 already?

Nothing against Macs intended here, but why would anyone say that in this case?

It'd be like an anti-fast food movement where someone suggests Burger King as an alternative to McDonald's. It wouldn't make any sense for the goal.

Sorry, sorry. I overslept.

Let them use Mac!

@Vince @fne8w2ah we dont need more fragmentation

Interesting idea. Cops already have their own Matrix fork (https://element.io/en/case-studies/tchap) and Android fork for secure messaging and secure phones. I haven't played with the secured phone, but it should be a custom locked-down Android ROM.

Creating distros is easy, funding for the volunteers upstream is what's lacking.

I hope the move also prompts them to start supporting upstream with funds, code, infrastructure, engineers, benefits and so on.

Seems to be a weather map or somesuch. Ironically it's also a Macbook, not a Windows machine.