Positive News: France has announced its plan to ditch Windows & switch to Linux for government desktops.

[elduvelle@neuromatch.social]

@Tutanota

"France has announced its plan to ditch Windows & switch to Linux for government desktops."

actually, no... they've announced that one of the government agencies / group will be moving to Linux.. not the entire government!

Wizard's first rule: people will believe something because they want to believe it's true...

the entire French government moving to Linux sounds very nice but that doesn't mean it's true! I'd recommend waiting until we have an accurate source that actually says this before getting all excited about it

(see my other post in a related convo:
https://neuromatch.social/@elduvelle/116376937367335279)

[wyliecoyoteuk@mastodon.org.uk]

@elduvelle @Tutanota
At least it is a step in the right direction.
FOSS alternatives to MS are much better than they used to be, in fact, the commercial stuff seems to be getting worse, more and more SAAS, reliant on cloud based solutions.

[elduvelle@neuromatch.social]

@wyliecoyoteuk yes, of course, still - we should stop propagating information that might be wrong without a reliable source to go with it!

[synthyx@social.vivaldi.net]

@Tutanota

This is good, I like this. They aren't actually like fully switching but this is a step in the right direction.

The statement the French Government made about GrapheneOS still pisses me off though, we cannot excuse that and we need to remind them.

[the_universality@mastodon.novotnykrystof.com]

@Tutanota Hopefully it won't introduce too may hiccups to make people not familiar with open-source be dissapointed.

[ramkay@mastodon.social]

@aditya_07

Welcome , and you are in good company

[geolr@expressional.social]

@Tutanota
Brave , wondering what the learnings from the city of Munich were (many years back)

[labrador@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota ага, только теперь всё будет более дырявым и уязвимым. Молодцы!

[krischambers@hachyderm.io]

@Tutanota is it finally the year of the Linux desktop?

[pinhman@humanwords.party]

@Tutanota @carrieberry Meanwhile Canada continues to support Microsoft with almost a B$illion

https://www.canada.ca/en/shared-services/corporate/about-us/transparency/publications/enables-modern-accessible-service.html

[ovoao@mastodon.social]

@PapaFatHead @Tutanota

Yeah, I wonder what office suite they will use.

[groovezilla@mastodon.social]

@vanlug France leads the way!

Au revoir US big tech.

[starluna@mastodon.social]

@ethanbvg Thank you for the explanation. I saw the reference to that and I was confused for a minute because Visio is also a Microsoft product that makes flow charts and things like that.

[criticalangle@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota i love this, viva la france!

[perrym@newsie.social]

@Tutanota I've always had respect for France's superior cuisine and now intelligence!

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota

It is the only option for independence and safety and integrity of our data.

The whole EU needs to follow.

[grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@starluna @Tutanota

Croissants.

[corse_pia@pouet.chapril.org]

@Tutanota
I agree with @elduvelle

it's a very small part of what should be done.
Far from that, I wait to see which budget will be given for those tasks (and It's quite difficult In France right now on this purpose)

there is ONE important move that could be done to explain that France is wishing to leave GAFAM

President Macron could stop communicating on X ( but he doesn't and will not)

last things : should we talk about France dependencies when it comes to cloud ??

[rupertreynolds@hachyderm.io]

@Tutanota Vive la France !

[phillipplays@retro-gaiden.com]

@Tutanota that's very big!