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France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

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Re: France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

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Post by surgical_fire »

polski-g wrote: post #57
esskay wrote: post #12

Yeah good on them, everyone needs to do this. It's nuts Windows is still the go-to for anything these days despite everyone knowing what a parasitic, buggy mess it is. "Easy" shouldn't be the excuse in this day and age. Big orgs and especially government entities should be hiring the people that know what they're doing and get off that crummy platform.

It makes sense that everyone uses Windows for gaming, because you can't run games in your browser. It makes zero sense for businesses to use Windows if they're only doing PowerPoint and video conferences.

The vast majority of my Steam library runs on Mint without issues (and some older games run actually smoother on Linux than they did on Windows).

Not to mention my very large emulation library.

I have no idea what you are talking about.

Re: France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

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Post by soco »

palata wrote: post #58
edg5000 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interestingly, there are zero non-US powerful laptops. The closest option is the Moore Threads MTT AI Book (12-core 2.65Ghz, 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD, 14 inch). It cannot reach a modern Ryzen in performance though. It's fascinating that only the US can make good computers. I'm not from/in the US so I'm not saying that from a patriotic point of view. How hard can it be to pop a good ARM chip in a laptop and compete with HP,…

> It's fascinating that only the US can make good computers. Lenovo is Chinese, right? Xiaomi, Samsung... can you really not name one non-US company making computers?

I'm typing on Acer right now. And there's Asus, MSI, Fujitsu...

Re: France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

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Post by derfurth »

It would be great, however the title is misleading: the only announcement regarding linux desktop is that the DINUM - a relatively small but perhaps influential government agency pledges to leave Windows.

I believe the largest Linux Desktop initiative in France is GendBuntu[1] for the National Gendarmerie

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu

Re: France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

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Post by CalRobert »

the_lonely_time wrote: post #155
CalRobert wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven’t seen power point used professionally for over a decade. All google (though I’ve made the odd prezi)

Are you just hanging around California startups? I work in big consulting and am inside hundreds of the largest companies in the US, everyone of which is fully Microsoft and only ever seen PowerPoint. I’m in dozens of teams meetings a week across as many organizations and have been in 2 Google meets meeting in the last decade, both of which were California fintech startups.

European startups mostly.

Re: France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

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Post by freedomben »

knollimar wrote: post #154
Gud wrote: post #86

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No it makes no sense at all. I do my gaming on Arch. Windows sucks and I hope to see the demise of Microsoft during my lifetime(crosses fingers).

I was under the impression anticheat is the only thing stopping linux gaming from taking over

Yes it's true

Re: France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

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Post by soggybread »

Honestly the only thing keeping me from bringing up the idea of moving to linux is that Windows has active directory and domain wide group policies - if linux had something similar that was easy to manage I'm sure a lot more corporations would move to linux. The ease at which I can adjust system settings throughout the company or within each department such as disabling/enabling features, mapping drives or printers. I haven't found a better alternative than active directory

Re: France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

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Post by prmoustache »

embedding-shape wrote: post #60
polski-g wrote: post #57

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It makes sense that everyone uses Windows for gaming, because you can't run games in your browser. It makes zero sense for businesses to use Windows if they're only doing PowerPoint and video conferences.

It's almost like Microsoft might be offering something on top of businesses using Windows, that isn't as commonly available for other platforms. Or businesses are just clueless face-less entities who have no idea what they're doing. Probably the truth is a little bit of both.

What Microsoftoffer is having only one contact / contract for a huge fraction of the IT needs of a company so I can understand it solves some headache vs building stuff from many bricks with as many contracts.

Re: France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

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Post by lionkor »

forinti wrote: post #142
ChocolateGod wrote: post #120

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> It's nuts Windows is still the go-to for anything these days despite everyone knowing what a parasitic Linux still doesn't have anywhere near as nice and cohesive as Group Policy, Active Directory etc. Plus you can pay Microsoft to host it all for you on Azure.

Yes, liberty comes at a cost. It seems that convenience is no longer the main motivator for many people.

Convenience comes as a result of mass market adoption, for products for which convenience was not already the main selling factor. Look at cars; they were kind of difficult to drive and maintain 60 years ago, now they're super convenient to drive and maintain as you essentially just press buttons and look at screens to get all needed information about the car and drive it.

It's probably something like "inception -> adoption -> convenience". For Windows it was the same, was it not? It wasn't absolutely convenient to use, it was just better (in terms of usability and features for the average consumer), and convenience came after (Windows XP, Windows 7). Sadly the functionality degraded, and now all that is left is convenience.

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