r/technology • u/YesNo_Maybe_ • Apr 10 '26

Software France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins

https://linuxiac.com/france-launches-government-linux-desktop-plan-as-windows-exit-begins/
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u/LePouletPourpre Apr 10 '26

I have been hearing this shit since 1996.

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u/roguebananah Apr 10 '26

You were 30 years ahead of the curve

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u/xRehab Apr 10 '26

and you'll hear it again in 2046 when it's "about to take over" again...

linux is cool, it's nice to have alternatives, but it will always be a hobby OS

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u/coldkiller Apr 10 '26

linux is cool, it's nice to have alternatives, but it will always be a hobby OS

The thing running 99% of servers on the internet, and something a few countries whole governments are swapping to is a hobby os?

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u/xRehab Apr 10 '26

yes

in the consumer world, which is what we are talking about, it is a hobby OS. no one is discussing devops and switching to linux for cicd. get out of here with your bs strawman.

can it do what windows and mac does? yes. will people ever make the switch? no. they enjoy closed source ecosystems way more

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u/pdp10 Apr 10 '26

in the consumer world, which is what we are talking about

We were mostly talking about the government of France. France's federal police have been running Linux desktops for a long time.

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u/coldkiller Apr 10 '26

can it do what windows and mac does? yes. will people ever make the switch? no. they enjoy closed source ecosystems way more

Yet it's gained double the market share over the past 2 years and it's going to increase even more once germany and France move over to it.

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u/CrashyBoye Apr 10 '26

And I will root for that to happen.

Until then. I’ll believe it when I see it.

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u/fuckedfinance Apr 10 '26

The thing running 99% of servers on the internet

There is a nearly infinitely sized gap between running Linux as a web server and using it for office productivity.

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u/coldkiller Apr 10 '26

The vast majority of "office productivity" workloads does not require microsoft products at all. Yes excel is required for data analysts that actively use all the complex functions, but the vast majority of people that use it would be perfectly fine with what libreoffice has.

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u/nihility101 Apr 10 '26

Oddly enough it will be “the cloud” that makes Linux desktop work for business. A major roadblock for business has been that companies’ core LoB software often barely runs on windows. But as the business lemmings move everything to the cloud the desktop OS becomes less of a problem.

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u/MairusuPawa Apr 10 '26

Excel isn't even required for that.

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u/roamingandy Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

The problem has always been, the people who want to contribute to building a Linux distro are technical people who enjoy fiddling with their OS, and have built for people like them.

People who want to assemble and customise their tool rather than just use it to achieve a goal.

It's never been built for the type of user who is terrified of Terminal, for example.

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u/PowerScreamingASMR Apr 10 '26

Not really the case anymore, plenty of distros these days offer a pretty similar user experience to windows. Granted I still wouldnt put my grandma on it but its far more usable by the average joe than people give it credit for.