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France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins (linuxiac.com)
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[–] Wfh@lemmy.zip 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's either a political move (nobody wants to be responsible for and/or depend on another ministry), or 4D chess where they would prevent a single vulnerability to expose the entire user base.

Fun fact, Orange (former France Telecom) has developed its own distro for the best part of the last 25 years. It's.. very peculiar.

By who are we kidding. The actual work will be offloaded to the shittiest contractor available (Capgemini/Atos/SopraSteria), it will take 5 years of the planned 2 and will cost 3.5 times the initial budget, for something sensibly shittier than an uBlue script.