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[-] nullify3112@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

Paraphrasing from the video: it’s a small town (2k people) in the Loire region. They claim that the transition to Linux wasn’t as hard as anticipated, meaning it wasn’t as hard to teach town officials to use it as they thought. Users are happy to see their machines run faster on Linux than on bloated Windows They are looking forward to saving money on SW but also on equipment since they don’t have to buy new machines for the Windows 11 planned obsolescence madness. However, the main reason the town switched was for privacy. They handle confidential info and are betting on Linux track record as less of a target of ransomware and other exploits, hopefully protecting their citizens data better.

10/10, who ever the mayor or city manager is, I applaud their clear mindedness and courage to make this transition. Hopefully, seeing the benefits, more towns will follow suite.

[-] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 69 points 2 days ago

Solid move. If your office really just needs a word processor, email, a spreadsheet editor, etc, then Linux is going to make a ton of sense financially.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 days ago

Based France

[-] discocactus@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago
[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Wild that everyone hasn't been doing it for years!

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately they have, especially I am aware of some in Germany, but they gave up due to the difficulties involved as Linux did not turn out to be as easy to use as people hoped a decade ago.

And now the pendulum has swung back around.

[-] Ninjasftw@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The German thing was quite suspicious though, the mayor of the city changed, Microsoft announced that they were building a new center of excellence or something in the town and suddenly Linux was too hard...

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 23 hours ago

Sounds exactly like Microsoft to not leave their product to compete on even terms, and instead use coercion tactics to "win".

Good. less money to US Corpos

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

My office is slowly decomissioning our ms servers afyer the whole cloudstrike thing. Its been nice standing up linux servers again. And saves $$.

[-] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Anyone else got no audio on the clip? Be cool if there were subtitles.

[-] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Went looking for the clip, that was a mistake.

What in the AI clickbait bot spam hell is going on here?

A bunch of randomly different channels, all with similar, sometimes the same, thumbnail, and suspiciously similar timestamps. The videos are like some dude (who I suspect is not a real person) in portrait talking like he’s reporting but it’s all generated painted looking backgrounds of stock photos.

[-] Gonzako@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Yeah after scrolling past 10 slop videos

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago

What in the slopping hell

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

That's elon musk and bill gates, they exist.

/s

[-] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Tux: exist French flag: existe

Case closed

[-] Zaelaa@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[-] pedz@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

C'est que des produits français.

Quelqu'un va devoir aviser Torvalds qu'il est maintenant Français. Blague à part, je comprends le choix de vocabulaire car la majorité de ce qu'ils doivent utiliser doit être des logiciels maison, mais reste que le système d'exploitation lui-même n'est quand même pas français.

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[-] nullify3112@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I paraphrased a rough translation in another reply if you want to take a look.

[-] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago
[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 days ago

I wonder what their software setup is. What they using for Id management or managing devices. Is this a government office?

[-] nullify3112@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The video says they are handling “banking info, health data and personal records” It is a government agency: the town hall of a small town of 2,000 people.

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[-] mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I'm sorry. As an American I don't speak French.

[-] Horsey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Il y a beaucoup de francophones de Nouveau Angleterre près de Québec!

[-] mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

There are indeed! And I grew up in Detroit, so I loved going across the river to Windsor and making trips up to Toronto.

Also, my original comment was meant to be a self-deprecating joke. It just seems like simply mentioning that you're American, or even just saying "American" at all, immediately starts getting you downvoted here on Lemmy, so...

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