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France has ditched Windows 11 for Linux on 2.5 million government PCs
(www.techradar.com)
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this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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That article is trash. Ministries have only been asked to come up with a plan of what’s possible to do to switch but I highly doubt most will switch. The education ministry recently renewed it’s Microsoft contract and I don’t think there is anything enforcing a switch, it’s only a “please look at what could be possible” thing. The only thing switching for sure is the DINUM, about 250 people, a lot of them already using Linux. But this is the start of an experiment where they are building some NixOS configurations that could be used if a larger switch was to happen. Believe it or not, they NixOS configs are names Sécurix and Bureautix.
The source article from ZDNet they got the information from has been updated to correct the mistake.
From 2.5 million to 350, that's sad
Using NixOS as an imaging tool by distributing a config is pretty neat and I would love to see it happen. I'm surprised they were competent enough to see that route; I wonder who's behind this initiative?
That's the Interministerial Digital Directorate, they are very competent.
https://github.com/cloud-gouv