France is transitioning government desktops to Linux, with each ministry required to formalize its implementation plan by autumn 2026.https://linuxiac.com/france-launches-government-linux-desktop-plan-as-windows-exit-begins/Source (French): https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes/Now, which distro should they pick?
>Now, which distro should they pick?RHEL
>>108571867>Migrate away from an American company>Into the arms of another American companyI guess they'll have to go to SUSE (German) for corporate support. I just found https://www.mageia.org (never heard of it) which is French.
>>108571860They should install Gentoo, but I suspect a custom Ubuntu-based distro is more likely. Cause French gendarmerie have been using one for almost 2 decades, GendBuntu.
>>108571860my condolences to french government workers
>>108571964All they do is send emails back and forth, they'll be fineOnly real work requires windows, i'm talking engineering and such
France is the only country in Europe which at least attempts to keep up with LLMs.Mistral is not really state of the art but it's up there with mid level models. And Germany and the UK seem to have just completely given up?
>>108571964Microsoft could always open up a Paris HQ, they did that to pull Munich back into their orbit. >>108571969Yes, but think of the poor accountants who'll have to suffer LibreOffice.
>>108571867They should probably create their own.
>>108571973>the UK seem to have just completely given up?Where do you think Google Deepmind came from? The UK has always been a major hub for AI research.
>>108571860Debian stable.>>108571867>switch from glowing company os to glowing company os>>108571964Government workers uses a computer for 5 things:>browse government web portals>pdfs>emails>text documents>spreadsheet documentsThat's it. Linux is good enough for all of those.
france is fake and gay
>>108571987fair enough, i didn't know DeepMind was Britishthen it's just Germany being retarded as usual
>>108571969>>108571998> Linux is good enough for all of thoselol no
>>108571998yes, yes, yes, yes, aaack.
>>108572003> then it's just Germany being retarded as usualSorry, can't comment on that. I am on my mandatory 30-day vacation, and after that I will go to the doctor for free.
>>108572007What else does a government worker needs?>>108572024Pic rel just works.
>>108572042It's actually really horrible, and they'll suffer tons of compatibility issues.
>>108571860ChromeOSIt's based on Gentoo
>>108572081microsoft jeet detected
>>108572003Germans are too busy making money to give to Greece and Spain
>>108572042>>108572081OnlyOffice is better and doesn't have the compatibility issues
>>108572092Fuck off>>108572105OnlyOffice is indeed much better, but you'll notice they don't display their business address that prominently. On their web page (which looks like a scam site), at the bottom you find>ONLYOFFICE is owned by Ascensio System SIA, a Latvian company which is a subsidiary of OnlyOffice Capital Group Pte. Ltd. The beneficiaries of OnlyOffice Capital Group Pte. Ltd. are listed in the registry of Singapore companies by ACRA. The business profile is available here.While it's "Latvian" there are claims it's Russian connected. That'll just go nowhere in France right now.
>>108572042it's not about else, but linux in general works like shit with bugs and glitchesmore than that it might work flawless on one machine, but have problems on anotheror just break without a reason one day
>>108572007Why not?>>108572081>compatibility issues>on LibreOffice2012 called; it wants its memes back.
>>108572105>>108572116OnlyOffice is a god damn fucking Electron app that drains your battery and takes forever to save/load. Why do you need a 3Ghz processor to display text, when fucking shitty laptops from the 90's could do this just fine?
>>108571973>governments should be focused on creating their own version of bonzi buddydoes /g/ really
>>108572128I think it's because they wanted to make it easy to handle web/server deployments. So yes, it becomes shit in different ways to libre office, but the interface and compatibility are at least very near 1:1.No one is beating excel with webshit, they still use win32/GDI for it.
>>108572081It's not 2004 anymore grandpa.France is recommending open document formats since 2010.Every French government worker is required to accept open document formats since 2015.>>108572092Based and kek'd.>>108572105>russian company>drama tards on a crusade against other open source document suitesYeah no thanks.>>108572121SAAR!
>>108572151If they're really on ODF, they'll certainly have a much smoother transition.
>>108572151good morning and have a nice day
>>108572149LibreOffice has the same degree of compatibility. If you want the interface to function the same as MS Office, the very first thing you see upon starting LO is a prompt asking you if you want to enable Ribbon.
>>108571938>gender army communists lmao
>>108572178Bitch please, I just installed it and immediately ran into an issue. ODF doesn't support structured tables >The ODF standard currently lacks support for structured references. When saving a file in .ods format, structured references are converted to direct references, preserving only the values at the time of saving. Efforts to introduce structured references in the ODF Standard are underway.Plus somehow, this software runs like it's written in javascript but on my machine. Clunkiest crap ever, just more FOSS shitware inflicted on the world by idiots and pushed by those motivated by ideology instead of engineering.
>member when ballmer was eggdbet some of (you) was not even alive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ifKbS3OFvU
>>108571860CachyOS
>>108571860>Now, which distro should they pick?Devuan.
>>108571860Fucking finally!>>108571867Hell no! Does Mandrake/Mandriva still exist? Aren’t they from France? Or maybe openSnuSnu as a European company?
>>108572531OpenMandriva is French, but they really won’t like it. It’s the chud distro, and it’s not enterprise.
>>108571860*GNU plus Linux
european governments decide this all the time and then a few years later it gets scrapped again due to a mixture of obstructionists boomer government servants who refuse to learn anything new, politicians bought off by microsoft and critical underfunding of IT departments, which might also be filled with diversity hires
>>108572623>It’s the chud distroHow?
i mean neat but it's 100% going to flop like every time yurop has tried this
>>108572031muzzies get free healthcarenative germans get the gas chamber
>>108571860>frogland gets invaded by street shitters>street shitters try to implement street shitter OSOMEGAKEK
