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France's move to ditch Windows for Linux is its latest effort to reduce its reliance on American tech giants.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/france-to-ditch-windows-for-linux-to-reduce-reliance-on-us-tech/

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[–] irish_link@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

The more all of these tech giants are going to push AI and cloud based things the more people are going to switch to Linux. This is a huge thing to have a full gov do it through. It will push driver support as well for them.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 11 points 1 month ago

Bookmarking this to see where they are in 10 years.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 10 points 1 month ago

Good. Windows is all of bad, expensive, and untrustworthy

[–] maam@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago

Office 365 is too expensive for sub-par quality.

No more corporate telemetry on private documents.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Looks like we have to delay the year of the linux desktop another year, until france is done.