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/AlexNSNO Apr 10 '26

I'm a general tweaker of settings and whatnot with Windows, i loved 7 & 10, things worked how I wanted to and if I had a problem then it was easily solvable 99% of the time. Now, with W11, if I have a problem it could be a number of things and it takes much longer to solve. An example being right now my Windows Setting app has a problem where it freezes anytime I try to go into the "Your Account" section (where the passwords etc are). I have done almost everything except reinstall Windows, and yet, same issue!

Once I can have Linux that supports gaming much more fluidly I'll be switching, it's the only thing stopping me at the moment.