La France prend une décision radicale contre Windows
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La direction du numérique en France va basculer de Windows à Linux et l'État engage un grand chantier de réduction de la « dépendance numérique

The digital directorate in France will switch from Windows to Linux and the state is embarking on a major project to reduce the “outer European digital dependency”

The subject of digital sovereignty has been imposed in the public debate since the beginning of 2026 in the face of a hypothesis: and if the United States cut off access to some of its technologies in Europe.

In France, the Prime Minister commissioned the Inter-Ministerial Directorate of Digital Affairs (DINUM) to “reduce the state’s extra-European digital dependencies”. It is this body that supervises the computer equipment and the deployment of services to the various government administrations.

The first target is now known: it is Windows.

  • Tetsuo@jlai.luEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    I guess it depends.

    For you it might be a blessing. For someone that isn’t comfortable with computers in general that may be very intimidating.

    Also this process of going full linux might takes years.

    And finally a job is a little more than the tools provided. I worked on linux system in said public administrations and they suffer almost always from very very limited budgets. The cyber security culture is almost non existent. The fear of change is prevalent everywhere. Leadership changes his mind all the time for major IT projects.

    So it’s absolutely not rosy.

    So for now this is the first step toward sovereignty and much less expensive systems but this will be a very painful process.