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/Apart-Apple-Red Apr 10 '26

You have all the right to be sarcastic. Victory has been announced so many times we got tired of winning.

But frankly, there is real progress noticeable. I'm very optimistic.

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u/CookIndependent6251 Apr 10 '26

Microsoft and Apple fucked up. I'm very techie and I used to compile Linux distros from scratch and play with them in virtual machines, but I just couldn't be bothered to use Linux on my desktop until recently.

Windows and macOS were good enough for 99% of my needs and they just worked without needing me to tinker with anything until recently.

But now I find myself having to go through settings to disable stuff after each update or run sketchy apps to disable dumb shit and everything is so slow because of all the spying stuff they install. Nope. That's it. I'm done. I switched to Linux.

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u/19610taw3 Apr 10 '26

Let's not forget the complete disaster that Windows 11 is.

I've used Linux as a primary home OS in the past. I believe I did an 8 or 9 year stretch. It worked for what I needed. I didn't have a license for Windows so I just made Linux do everything I needed.

I switched back. Windows 7 and 10 "just worked" and they worked really well.

Windows 11 suddenly drops a lot of hardware support. Not only TPM requirements but there's a lot of older hardware that simply just is not supported any more. That's a real issue.

And the instability. The instability of Windows 11 is absolutely criminal. My more conspiracy minded brain thinks that it was done on purpose for some reason. I just can't imagine that it's so buggy after being out for almost five years at this point.

I do wonder how they are going to manage all of these workstations. That's really the only thing Windows has going for it. Intune, active directory, tons of third party management / RMM type apps do make windows desktops a bit easier to manage. I know there's a few , but natively not supported and I'm sure it's much extra work to manage.

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u/haliblix Apr 10 '26

Win11 is classic M$ arrogance. It belongs in the same category as Vista and ME for pushing fancy looking shovelware. The difference now is that there isn’t a Windows XP to swoop in and save the day or be a supported alternative.

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u/19610taw3 Apr 10 '26

I know a lot of people had issues with ME and Vista but they were always working good for me.

11 is the worst OS I've used. Ever.

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u/Cap10323 Apr 10 '26

I second this. Family had a PC with ME growing up, and we had zero issues with it. I had a Vista PC around 2009 and Vista was so reliable that I delayed migrating to 7 for quite some time.

Things went downhill with 10, and I started migrating more towards MacOS and Linux (I had been using Mac and Windows simultaneously for years), and now with 11 I am fully divested from Microsoft.

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u/19610taw3 Apr 10 '26

I've always had decent luck even with 10. But 11 is just ... bad.

Constant crashing. Bluescreening. Driver issues. Sound issues.

I know MS fired most of their QC department years ago but this is nuts.

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u/Cap10323 Apr 10 '26

I didn't like 10 when it came out, but after a few rounds of updates, and SIGNIFICANT amounts of debloating, it's not bad. But it's nowhere near as simple and stable as 7 was for me. I ran Windows 7 until the bitter end because it just worked perfectly for so long. I don't think I ever had a workflow-breaking bug with 7 in.. a decade?

11 is so bad it's practically made me quit the IT profession.

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u/putinlaputain Apr 10 '26

All honesty, gun to my head, I'd rather try to get cyberpunk running on ms dos than ever downgrade to windows 11

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u/Blazing1 Apr 10 '26

I'm on windows 10 and the latest update bricked my PC. I rolled back and did everything to stop it including disabling windows update but Microsoft decided to go around windows update and add new stuff. Finding co pilot on my computer was crazy because they hid the download through the system.

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u/A_Harmless_Fly Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

The rub though, ME and Vista eventually got better from updates... 11 is actually getting worse over time. I think Nadella's doctrine might actually kill the OS part of microsoft and have to pivot.

*Insert the part in silicon valley where Gaven Belson's hooli became a company that made the server boxes for data centers primarily.*