France proposes breaking dependence on American big tech by adopting Linux
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Yeah, never discount how much ANY establishment loves nothing more than to say they'll do something but sit on their hands instead...
They (Europe) has been saying they would move to Linux for almost 20 years. Some municipalities have but those are few and far between.
They won't do it because the reality is that Linux is not and never will be a viable alternative to Windows. It's an OS for servers that have a very narrowly defined function, not a desktop environment for normies that can be smoothly managed at scale.
If you want a Linux version for regular users then use Linux Mint Cinnamon. I would stay away from any Fedora based distros or distros that use the Gnome interface. Arch based distros is good if you want advance features but those are not distros for regular people. The only Arch based distro that I know of that is okay for regular people is SteamOS and that is mostly for playing Steam games and not a full computer interface.
I will agree it's not for normies but Microsoft had 40 years to entrench themselves going back to DOS. As for scale management, its way easier to deal with.
Only if you don't have users.
This is more or less true.
You can now run 99% of windows app on Linux. Although it's kinda odd to use emulation on Linux, I agree.