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French government says it's ditching Windows for Linux — country accelerates plans to ditch US-based software in digital sovereignty push (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I fucking hate that so many of them are going to Ubuntu berceuse of course they are

[–] sonofearth@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Well they want “official” tech support from a company which they can hold accountable for any problems.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

"oops sorry we switched back to manual approval mode because our invincible foolproof package management system pushed out malware again"

[–] imgcat@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

you forgot the /s

[–] sonofearth@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

that’s not a joke lol. governments and businesses actually think like that. Whom are they gonna sue if, for example, CachyOS borks something? Since it being a community developed distro, it doesn’t provide dedicated 24x7 tech support or would quickly patch something because some business’s application stopped working on that distro.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Having someone to complain to/point fingers at/sue is incredibly important in the business world, and a big part of why M$ is so big.

In fact, just having support is a big thing. Look at how shitty M$ support is. Or Cisco, for that matter.

Not to mention a steady, predictable, accountable release cadence.

If you want that, in the Linux world, it's basically Ubuntu/Canonical, RedHat/IBM, or Oracle/Oracle.

I'd call Canonical the lessest of 3 evils here...

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Well, yes.