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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins

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France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins

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France is transitioning government desktops to Linux, with each ministry required to formalize its implementation plan by autumn 2026.
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  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    year of the french linux desktop

    • felixwhynot@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      But I am le tired

      • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Well have a nap

        ZEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!!!

        • yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip
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          confused german look Hans, zey konfond is again

        • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

        • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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          I said lunch, not launch.

          (stolen from meme for other country, please accept)

        • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc@lemmy.federate.cc
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          Well have a nap

          ZEN INSTALL ZE GENTOO!!

          • stormdelay@sh.itjust.works
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            Then have a nap again while you compile GTK/qt/and whatever else

            • msage@programming.dev
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              Just Sway, don’t use QT with Gentoo.

      • hraegsvelmir@ani.social
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        It’s fine, they’ve sorted out sleep mode on most hardware a while ago

  • goatinspace@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    What distro? Mageia?

  • pharceface@retrolemmy.com
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    NICE

  • nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de
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    So I can no longer make the joke about removing french language packs using rm -fr /?

    • TerdFerguson@lemmy.world
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      I just tried this! OMG whadoidowhadoidowhadoido

      lol

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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      No, you can make it even harder now that they’re going linux

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    Combining French snobbery with Linux snobbery could set off some kind of chain reaction.

    How soon until Quebec joins the Bloc de L’nux?

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      How soon until Quebec joins the Bloc de L’nux?

      Wasn’t this foretold in Infinite Jest?

    • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
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      You think there might be a self-sustaining snobbery fission chain reaction?

    • BigJohnnyHines@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      Like Tux but with cool sunglasses and cigarettes.

      • okmko@lemmy.world
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        Don’t forget the baret and baguette.

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    Between this and expedition 33, France is coming up with some Ws these days.

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    J’utilise le Arch de Triomphe, btw

  • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
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    Zomg, they will not allow you to sudo remove le French language!!!

    • 0x0@lemmy.zip
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      Listen carefully, i shall say this only once!

      • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
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        It is I, le Tuxue, and I am here to help you install fallen penguin with the big boobies mod. (DE theme?)

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          Yes of course Herr Gruber 🙃

    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Okay… Fire ze missiles!

      • MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        But I am le tired

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          well have a nap… AND ZEN FIRE ZE MISSILES

  • Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world
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    Probably called Xunil

    • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      And the académie français is pissed about it

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Low-key great distro name

  • olivier@lemmy.fait.ch
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    Let’s hope they’ll use Gendarmerie’s almost 20 years of experience on that.

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      Glad I found this comment. It was my first thought when seeing the headline: haven’t they already been doing that for decades?

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      I like that they went with “Gendbuntu” instead of a boring official sounding acronym.

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    3 months ago

    L’Nux

    • mr_anny@sopuli.xyz
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      3 months ago

      Le Nux

      • FG_3479@lemmy.world
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        Hello, this is Le Nus Torvalds, and I pronounce Le Nux as Le Nux.

    • Eezyville@sh.itjust.works
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      Why not Des Nux?

  • medem@lemmy.wtf
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    Wexit.

    • mr_anny@sopuli.xyz
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      Winxit (pronounced win shit)

  • Smoogs@lemmy.world
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    They won’t go back. once you start getting used to having logic that responds to your commands it really is hard to give that up to ai slop.

  • anon_8675309@lemmy.world
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    This is how you renegotiate with MS.

    • stormdelay@sh.itjust.works
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      Hopefully the time for negotiations is past

      • spizzat2@lemmy.zip
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        Yeah, I think/hope this is their “Find Out” era.

      • Agent641@lemmy.world
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        Someone way better at editing gifs than me should edit the 5th element “We’re sending somebody in to negotiate!” Scene to have tux superimposed over Bruce Willis

        • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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          just ask grok, duh

        • Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works
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          but it is vador taking the shot and saying i am altering the deal pray i dont alter it further, then neo coming up with the mini gun hellicopter out side the window, fuck yeah!

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    Meanwhile in the UK our government is strengthening ties to palintir. We always have to be the losers of Europe

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      Hey at least you aren’t getting natural gas from those guys. You know those extra super duper bad guys.

    • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      UK is US-lite.

      • FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world
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        Nah. That’s Canada. They even have their own MAGAts/deep south in Alberta.

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          Feck, wish I could argue with you!

        • sunnytimes@lemmy.ca
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          maple maga

          • dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Which is at least good on pancakes.

    • PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social
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      I mean, technically y’all aren’t part of Europe anymore…

      • p4rzivalrp2@piefed.social
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        Yeah they are? Just not the eu

        • UnknowableNight@piefed.social
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          Nah, dude, the island floated too far away, now they’re a continent

    • dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Hey. Thats not true. Youre just outside europe.

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        The UK is obviously in Europe… They just pushed us out into the sea one night cos we’re embarrassing.

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      Eh, Germany is currently doing the same, so we’re both losing

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      Afaik France still has contracts with Palantir

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        No doubt, but this is a step in the right direction. If it works it proves the value of further breaking away from the US. While we still buy whatever they’re selling, and provide support loading their bombs for their wars.

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      You guys literally wrote the book on Orwellian governments.

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