If France goes through with this I retract the sillier half of shit I have said about france.
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I'm sure they look forward to you waving their flag in surrender 🏳️
Lmao
Do you know what they call operative systems in France? A Royal with Linux
What do they call a Debian?
Debian's a Debian, but they call it Le Debian.
Or simply Lebian not to confuse with LeSbian 😛
That's "Les bians" for you.
Never forget to pluralize the nouns if the article is plural. 😛
Wexit? Windexit?
Windone.
Windon't
I have this mental image of a migration like this leading to critical mass and the Year of the Linux Desktop, but has something like this ever lead to a significant upsrtreaming of improvements or new features?
What is "The Year of the Linux Desktop" exactly? How do we measure this exactly and what does that even mean? (I use that phrase for memes usually.)
Every euro country or agency that has done or announced this has simply used it to extract concessions from Microsoft and either stayed with or switched back to windows.
There are cases of but also on going programs.