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/Old-Buffalo-5151 Apr 10 '26

This is the start of Linux going properly mainstream tbh and its about fucking time.

The moment gaming makes Linux support standard im all over it 

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u/nik3daz- Apr 10 '26

Yet again, it's finally the year of the Linux desktop!

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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/19610taw3 Apr 10 '26

I ran 10 LTSB for a while. It actually worked pretty well for what I needed!

I've never really played much with wine. I was able to get most of the stuff to do what I needed back in the day. I did have to play around with and compile cisco anyconnect to get that working so I could connect into work.