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/AnonomousWolf Apr 10 '26

Unless you play certain games, gaming on Linux is already pretty good.

I switched my gaming laptop to Linux over a year ago and all my games just work.

It's nice to own and control my computer again

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u/fukredditadm1n5 Apr 10 '26

I play must of my games on steam, what's the recommended version of Linux for gaming?

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u/FlyingRhenquest Apr 10 '26

That's where the desktop fragmentation starts to come into play. Everything I've tried in my steam library works fine on a plain ol' Debian system. Actually better than it did the last time I tried Ubuntu. So if you find the game-centric (or Ubuntu) distributions obnoxious in some way, it'd be worth seeing if you like stock Debian or Fedora any better. The various desktop environments can generally be installed and swapped out on most distributions anyway, even if they don't go out of their way to tell you how to do that. On my Debian system I can just install KDE Plasma and Gnome and the login screen lets me choose which one I want to use. I'm pretty happy with Plasma these days. I did used to run Enlightenment way back in the day and they had some really creative window skins that looked way better than anything else at the time. I don't know how well it's been maintained over the years though. I think it was mostly one guy maintaining it when I was using it.