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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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Good. Windows is all of bad, expensive, and untrustworthy
Office 365 is too expensive for sub-par quality.
No more corporate telemetry on private documents.
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.
Bookmarking this to see where they are in 10 years.
Looks like we have to delay the year of the linux desktop another year, until france is done.
