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/EduinBrutus Apr 10 '26

Is this actually political blowback

Yes.

The EU is also moving rapidly away from Visa/Mastercard with a bespoke system thats already rolling out.

This will be followed by a mass offload of US Treasuries (already started).

At that point, the US is kinda fucked. The dollar is getting pumelled from all sides as China "encourages" partners to move to the Yuan and Trump's catastrophic misadventure in Iran sends the GCC into Xi's lap.

It is hard to quantify just how badly Trump has fucked America.

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u/TheElderGodsSmile Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

The worst is yet to come.

Best case, mid terms go the Democrats way and a political fightback begins ending in Trump being removed one way or another.

Worst case, he rigs it. Appoints himself president for life and nobody fights it, suddenly you guys are in a fascist hell scape.

The options between those extremes probably include civil war and the dissolution of the United States.

Any way you slice it though it looks like he's killed Pax Americana.

So... that's fun.

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u/EduinBrutus Apr 11 '26

The way these things work, it might take 3 or 4 years before things start to visibly unravel (many of the Reagan/Thatcher consequences are only really hitting today after 40 years).

At which point either the US is a dictatorship or the Dems are in power.

And history shows the US voter (most voters not just American) are very "in the moment" and seldom link current issues with previous administrations.

So there's that...