Ditch iOS and Android for a Blackberry OS / Nokia ? Really, are there any alternatives?
SailfishOS, Ubuntu touch, and postmarketOS to name a few from the top of my dome.
Nokia isn't really an alternative at all since M$ bought it.
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
#512The age of the Linux desktop might actually finally be coming Personally I think we are at an interim period for a big player to emerge and take over this space. If enough governments in the EU start switching over to customized linux distros theres a big chance for someone like Nokia to come in and develop their own approved distro with proper MDM and GPO-like management functionality baked in . On top of that it co…
I've been using linux as a daily driver since the start of the year.
There's still a long ways to go before things "just work". It's about equivalent to windows right now in terms of frustrations, it's just that frustrations are more along the lines of "this is a bit wonky" instead of "this is malicious / was their intended behavior". It's gotten a LOT better, don't get me wrong, but it's still far off from what a typical user would need.
I'd love to see either Valve or Nvidia really put in effort into creating their own hardware/software integration on a level that Apple does. I think it'd go a long way to legitimizing it.
Re: France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
#513Earlier quoted context omitted.
All of that came about without them spending anything. So the extra is just to fix bugs and do integration work. StarOffice (LibreOffice ancestor) existed in the 90s—I used it and it was fine for government work. File storage? Cheap by Y2K as well.
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It's really cheap to run FOSS on commodity PCs in the twenty first century. Hetzner is very reasonable in the cloud more recently.
It's not a binary switch either, you build the platform bit by bit every year and roll it out to more and more workers. Four dimensional thinking, that could have succeeded already, a decade plus ago.
Sure a few components would have to be written in the meantime. Just a few million a year would be a huge boost to gaps in FOSS.
Re: France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
#514The age of the Linux desktop might actually finally be coming Personally I think we are at an interim period for a big player to emerge and take over this space. If enough governments in the EU start switching over to customized linux distros theres a big chance for someone like Nokia to come in and develop their own approved distro with proper MDM and GPO-like management functionality baked in . On top of that it co…
big player + (standard) linux desktop may well be coming, but that means losing the semi-anarchist bazaar mentality. Will the standard be gnome or KDE or XFCE or ...? If gnome, version 2 or 3? Firefox or chrome as the default browser (or derivatives like waterfox or plain chromium ...)? AI integration?
The moment you're developing for people with no IT experience and no CS degree, you're going to have to make tradeoffs like Microsoft or Google or Apple have to make today, and somehow deal with the "curl ... |sh" problem.
Re: France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
#515The age of the Linux desktop might actually finally be coming Personally I think we are at an interim period for a big player to emerge and take over this space. If enough governments in the EU start switching over to customized linux distros theres a big chance for someone like Nokia to come in and develop their own approved distro with proper MDM and GPO-like management functionality baked in . On top of that it co…
honestly since the browser has more or less become the real operating system the host OS doesn't matter so much anymore. most people do 90% of their work in the browser anyway
There's an xkcd for that ;) https://xkcd.com/934/
Re: France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
#516Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean switch Windows by Microsoft for ChromeOS by Google? Weird suggestion. As for "security" and "antimalware" solutions being ready, I don't think there is much difference between the OSs there. Windows is no candyland either. As always, they will need competent people in the right places to pull this through. Tech is just an enabler.
Yes I do mean that. Google is one of the only companies in the Linux space who takes security seriously.
And switching to Google achieves the aim of getting away from American tech giants?
Re: France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
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You must be German — the French state is a lot more top down than Germany with its regions, so generally these kinds of mandates get applied broadly
> You must be German Oof , that's just offensive! Anyway, most German Linux 'mandates' were indeed regional, and (for good reasons!) failed to migrate 'upstream'. Whether the French mandate takes hold remains to be seen. "We're not Germany" is not the end-all argument it might seem to be to you.
Sorry I didn't see your reply, what was it about?
Re: France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
#518So did the Great Country of North Korea.
Re: France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
#519The age of the Linux desktop might actually finally be coming Personally I think we are at an interim period for a big player to emerge and take over this space. If enough governments in the EU start switching over to customized linux distros theres a big chance for someone like Nokia to come in and develop their own approved distro with proper MDM and GPO-like management functionality baked in . On top of that it co…
Personally i think there is a huge innovationspace for pipe connected agents doing work for the user.. a example:
A firefox agent downloading pictures of cats.. piping them to a graphics program drawing mustaches on them piping them to a moviemaker piping them to a firefox video uploading "the longest catswithmustaches" shorts compilation ever.. all clicked together in a "incredibble machine" like explorer by a user who doesent even know how to code..
Re: France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
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How does XFCE compare to KDE and GNOME? Also, does it has all the nice window snapping features that I'm used to fron Windows?
As a long time Linux user, this comment makes me sad since many of those features were copied from Linux (many from Unity) :)
I think most of its features predate unity (compiz was integrated but existed before)