It’s finally the year of the Linux Desktop! And all it took was an apocalypse, the rise of the fourth reich, (soon to be) two global recessions, and continuing unprecedented damage to the world order / faith in international law.
Oh, and Windows actively trying its absolute hardest to make everyone hate it for about a decade.
But hey,… progess! The more penguins, the better.
all it took was an apocalypse, the rise of the fourth reich, (soon to be) two global recessions, and continuing unprecedented damage to the world order / faith in international law.
Absolutely wild brand activation tactics from the Linux marketing team.
I fucking hate that so many of them are going to Ubuntu berceuse of course they are
Well they want “official” tech support from a company which they can hold accountable for any problems.
“oops sorry we switched back to manual approval mode because our invincible foolproof package management system pushed out malware again”
you forgot the /s
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.
Well, yes.
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…
Linux’s message to the world: “The I-Told-You-So’s Shall Continue Until Installation Rates Improve.”
we brought this upon ourselves by failing to listen to the FOSS gods.
Oh, and Windows actively trying its absolute hardest to make everyone hate it for about a decade.
You’re off by about thirty years.
Nah, Windows XP and 7 get a pass. These were solid consumer OS’s.
You go back 30 years and you’re at Windows 95 (holy shit) and the beginning of massive home PC adoption.
I don’t feel they got hostile towards users until probably midway through Windows 10 lifecycle. The first half wasn’t that bad, aside from changing up 20+ years of muscle-memory…but Gnome did that, too.
For me it started going south just after Windows 2000. XP started ‘thinking’ for you, forced online activation and hid all the settings away in little fluffy Fischer Price boxes. That was the point that your computer started not belonging to you, in my opinion.
Apocalypse?
Covid. I’m being slightly hyperbolic.
There are 7 million people who would agree with you, if they could.
That’s only if you believe in science
Ah
Good. As an American, fuck Microsoft. And fuck Trump.
*microslop
would be great if they did phones next.
Jolla is the only real option software wise
Other options exist, but not so polished. It’s a tough project that apparently needs more support than small FOSS projects can provide, I’ve seen a lot of promising alternatives come and go.
Hardware/firmware wise, would really like to see open standards like we have for PC bootloaders. EU requiring nonproprietary bootloaders on phones would be a real step forward.
They could throw support behind GrapheneOS, it’s great and it’s Canadian eh
For sure GOS is great, but it is still only android fork. Not real independent alternative for duopoly
And it also only works on Google hardware 🤮
(And maybe one future Sony phone maybe?)
It’s confirmed coming to Motorola hardware next year. With more funding and institutional support I’m sure they could assemble a larger pool of devices that meet their requirements
France is not going to support GOS, 🤣🤣
Just ordered a Sony Xperia with SailfishOS! I hope you’re right! 🤞
(FYI just in case: SailfishOS is NOT an Android fork! I didn’t realize this until recently.)
The French are doing the right thing. Getting independent from the US software dominance takes time and the US regime could decide any day to use it stupidly and brutally. I just wish my government had as much foresight.
My take on it: most people do have foresight or at least understand the issue, but they still don’t act on it or ignore it as long as the status quo is still convenient enough. So it’s purely a matter of pain and inconvenience. Once enough pain and inconvenience has accumulated, they’re much more ready to make an actual switch. Thankfully, with Microsoft’s services also becoming increasingly enshittified (forced AI chatbot integrations everywhere, even more cloud dependencies, ever more expensive subscriptions, …) there’s also Microsoft shooting itself in the foot a bit in order to accelerate this process. Vile actions from the current US regime are also accelerating the process of course.
Every country should do this. I’m an American however my country is turning into shit by the day.
Micro$oft isn’t America.
Micro$oft is a special interest inside America, maybe, at best, American-government-aligned, assuming the government is heavily influenced or captured by Micro$oft.
If Ameirca is first and foremost its people, the megacorp and the oligarchical interests (economic royalists) inside America are at odds with most of the American population. The megacorps and the oligarchs can be considered anti-American.
Anyway, what’s bad for Micro$oft is not always bad for America. What’s good for America is not always good for Micro$oft. These interests are not all on the same page, to put it politely.
(this is just me agreeing with you in a longer form)
Wait until Le Pen or Bardella comes into power and remake the deal with American tech oligarchs, undoing Macron’s push for strategic autonomy. As long as the right in France isn’t killed, any attempt of decoupling will only be coupled back to US, because fascists have internationalise their ideas and coordination.
Hopefully more follow! Supporting European mobile OS would be huge step next
I have read items like this for years about some jurisdiction in Europe switching to FOSS. These things take a long time to implement, lot of retraining of people that have used MS for decades. The cost is significant since you still need to pay the license fees and have support during the transition.
In this case it’s the entire government top-down. It’s not just a jurisdiction. They have probably weighed the cost benefits of transitioning vs throwing money at Microsoft forever
The French Revolution 2.0 where is the Person who says: if they dislike Microsoft why dont they use mac?
probably getting shouted down by the french policymakers who made this decision along the lines of “Apple is an American company too and we’re SICK OF AMERICA’S SHIT”
Lmao, you beat me to it!
I mean that’s literally the goal so why wouldn’t they
Aren’t they on like French Revolution 4.0 or 5.0 already?
Nothing against Macs intended here, but why would anyone say that in this case?
It’d be like an anti-fast food movement where someone suggests Burger King as an alternative to McDonald’s. It wouldn’t make any sense for the goal.
I tried the Marie Antoinette quote, in a different manner. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
Oh I get it now
Sorry, sorry. I overslept.
Let them use Mac!
Hmm, it would be interesting if all these governments switching to Linux would make their own distros.
Interesting idea. Cops already have their own Matrix fork (https://element.io/en/case-studies/tchap) and Android fork for secure messaging and secure phones. I haven’t played with the secured phone, but it should be a custom locked-down Android ROM.
Creating distros is easy, funding for the volunteers upstream is what’s lacking.
I hope the move also prompts them to start supporting upstream with funds, code, infrastructure, engineers, benefits and so on.
What does he play?
Seems to be a weather map or somesuch. Ironically it’s also a Macbook, not a Windows machine.
