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French village is switching their computers to Linux. They will no longer purchase Microsoft Windows or Microsoft Office

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Submitted ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Zaelaa@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨videos@lemmy.world⁩

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  • nullify3112@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • saltnotsugar@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Based France

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  • discocactus@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wild that this is news.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Good. less money to US Corpos

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  • mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Anyone else got no audio on the clip?

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    • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Went looking for the clip, that was a mistake.

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

      Image Image Image Image Image Image

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      • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Samtime is legit tho

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      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What in the slopping hell

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      • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh no!

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      • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

        /s

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    • nullify3112@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thanks!

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    • Zaelaa@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Here is the original clip.

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      • pedz@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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      • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thanks!

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  • BallShapedMan@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What are they replacing office with? I’ve been using Office Libre but it’s buggy AF. I can’t use sheets on a second monitor because it freezes until I move it back the main monitor for example.

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    • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Personally I use LibreOffice, it’s very solid.

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    • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I use libre office on a second monitor and its fine. That honestly does not sound like a problem with software. It should not care how the os displays it to hardware endpoints.

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      • BallShapedMan@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s wierd… I wonder why it gives me a hard time?

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    • leftascenter@jlai.lu ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Most probably partially this (official gvt French tools)

      lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/en

      github.com/suitenumerique

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      • BallShapedMan@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thank you!

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      • deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh that’s pretty neat projects. Wonder if Germany, Netherlands and France will go with this over euro office.

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    • moonlight@fedia.io ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not sure what they're using, but OnlyOffice is pretty good

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      • BallShapedMan@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’ll give that a go, thank you!

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    • BlackVenom@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This. Sheets is disappointing af.

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Try LibreCalc

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  • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • nullify3112@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The video says they are handling “banking info, health data and personal records”

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    • mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Theres AD compliant software out there interestingly enough.

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      • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, ive always wanted to try working in a place that doesnt use AD/Entra.

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