• ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
    1·
    4 minutes ago

    I gave a grapheneos phone (sadly Google got a registration) with sand boxed google store that I rarely use, Linux mint desktop, Linux mint laptop.

    My home has no natural light because no windows!

  • Heyla@quokk.auEnglish
    5·
    9 hours ago

    Yeah we have fascism with macron, but…under linux 🤡

    Learn more about macron’s politics before be happy for us

  • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz
    19·
    20 hours ago

    Didn’t a government entity in Belgium try to do the same thing until a bunch of Microsoft suits swooped in and “encouraged” them to stay with them instead? Hope France doesn’t do the same.

    edit: All I could find was this article about the Azure datacentres that they announced in 2021 finally opening, but I SWEAR I remember there being news reports around 2019-2020 of the Belgian government switching to Linux.

    I’m not trying to say this is a conspiracy btw, I was living in Germany for school at the time and would watch the news to help with my German skills. This came up as an on-air discussion topic on whether Germany should do the same (which was shutdown pretty quickly LOL, apparently MS has a lot of influence in Munich).

    If any Belgians have any insights or better search skills than me, they are welcome to correct me.

      • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
        4·
        8 hours ago

        from an IT perspective NixOS would be VERY easy for them to setup. pretty much clone the same configuration across all computers and you’re good to go. PLUS if they installed comma with it would make the user experience easy. just have to teach people to open a terminal and type “, firefox” and you’re good to go. keeps things clean. don’t have to worry about people installing stuff that could potentially break their system as you would just lock down the nix configuration.

    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      20 hours ago

      No standard, no custom government specific distro designed for the use case and ensuring stability and consistency… every department can choose their own.

      So similar fragmentation that underpins the issues Linux has with consumer confusion when trying to switch. There are too many options all with weird quirks that isn’t an issue for technical people, but is impossible for the average person to wade through to find good options for them.

      Maybe they’ll specify more in the future, but at the moment it looking more like expecting each large government department to make fundamental decisions on their core IT infrastructure on their own, as opposed to a dedicated and specialized team with experience.

      • Brummbaer@pawb.social
        3·
        10 hours ago

        This makes total sense, since not ever department has the same needs.

        Also these are work computers, there is no “consumer confusion”- you get what everyone uses, that’s also one of the reasons windows is everywhere.

        Lastly, if rolling out different distros is a core decision in your IT you lack Linux experience in my opinion.

    • lumpenproletariat@quokk.auEnglish
      5·
      21 hours ago

      From what I remember reading; different ones, they’ve set no standard and let every department pursue their own needs.

        • alci@sh.itjust.works
          5·
          11 hours ago

          French “gendarmerie” has a long and quite successful experience with Linux… Something like 70000 PC, with a customized Ubuntu distro, since 2008.