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It’s good for the US, too.
Americans don’t have to live under the bootheels of corporations.
Well, that’s just about as good news as can be in the current tech climate, in particular considering programs like VLC and KeePass are getting this visibility.
Great choices. I use all of them.
DuckDuckGo as a web browser?
On android at least, yes there is a duck duck go browser.
based!
Do they also fund these projects?
Probably a lot like the actual users of (F)OSS: Not really :p
They are not only no funding but largely not using it in practice and letting most public institution spent billions in Microsoft Office 365 contract
To be clear. This is a government agency endorsing the software as safe and effective.
This isn’t the French Prime Minister announcing the country will cancel Microsoft Office subscriptions and financially support FOSS projects. Gimp has nowhere near the ressources they actually need.
VIM…? Safe…?!
Once you start Vim, you don’t even need to activate the lock screen when you leave your desk. Ain’t no-one going to be using that machine for anything nefarious any more.
It’s still nice! A bit of recognition, legitimacy, and although it’s not funding, it might be a small step towards it. I see many great works, that stand tall on their own. More eyes will only make them shine even brighter.
Thanks, Fr*nce.
That’s cool, I hope ONLYOFFICE gets some love one day too. I vastly prefer the GUI at least in the word processor. Also open source.
note I’m only using it for writing, can’t speak to the rest of the suite
Not judging the software at all, but the fact that OnlyOffice is owned/developed by a semi-sketchy Russian corporation would probably preclude it from getting any endorsement from a Western government.
Cryptpad (which partly uses onlyoffice), writes about it here: https://forum.cryptpad.org/d/232-onlyoffice-concerns-vendor-makes-shady-moves/4
I think it’s an excellent post worth reading. Open Source entails collaborating with the whole world. Any code base is simply to big to audit from the start, but all incremental code can be audited, and you can disable stuff you don’t need etc.
For me, the post makes me trust cryptpad more than I did before.
And yes. Cryptpaf = onlyoffice, but still relevant I think
Edit: spelling of “worth”
Didn’t know that :/ Hmm might switch myself then and delete my recc.
Dude. Don’t be part of the problem.
It is endorsed, though?
The first thing any government should do is move away from ms office.
The 2nd thing they should do is fund and contribute to a distro and begin the transition from windows.
That’s kind of quote cool for a government to do IMO.
Hopefully the French will also endorse Fedora, Red Hat, and Valve’s SteamOS. Microsoft is a huge security issue, since it isn’t clear whether MS would bend to DOGE’s whims. The NLRB and other aspects of the US government had DOGE set up accounts, which were accessed within 15 minutes by Russia.
Why RedHat? I thought it’s a bad version of Linux and generally disliked (similar to Broadcom and ESXi).
Why not prefer something based on Debian. As it’s being regarded as very stable I don’t feel like it would interfere with the employees daily job as they don’t need a cutting edge distro like arch.Or why not SUSE? I forget who owns it now, but at least for a while it was owned by an EU firm.
Linux isn’t very good for the casual person at this time, due to conflicting, dated, or missing documentation. If people are to be encouraged to adopt Linux, it should be toward distributions that have official technical support.
Regular people don’t read documentation.
are you suggesting there is documentation for Windows?
It’s sufficiently documented.
It’s just spread across a fuck load of different pages (learn vs. msdn vs. support vs forum).
And the articles are so unnecessary distributed across those pages. And so much articles are missing links to related topics that it’s comically bad.At least the powershell has a partly sound documentation. But very hit or miss.
Windows documentation is an absolute mess. The only reason you can claim it is “documented” is the sheer volume of users, but that’s not necessarily a good thing when suggested fixes include registry edits, disabling security features, and running everything as an admin.
due to conflicting, dated, or missing documentation.
Oh, let’s all use FreeBSD then. Please? Please?
Isn’t that the point of donating to it? If the French government wants a specific thing done (say, documentation), they can make the donation go towards that.
Ideally, that would be part of their initiative. There are multiple angles that can be taken to encourage Linux adoption. Standards for formal documentation and technical support options are two prongs on the same trident.
So, I love Debian, and it’s an excellent distro.
But personally something like suse makes more sense, it’s more user friendly and is so German it’s painful.
Can confirm, I use openSUSE and it’s glorious. AFAIK, they don’t accept donations, but they probably would from someone like the French government.
It has some wobbly bits, but it really exposes the most powerful parts of linux.
And it’s still somehow more user friendly than basically anything else in linux. Or windows for that matter.
Yeah, they did a really good job. I use Tumbleweed on my desktop, Aeon in my laptop, and Leap on my NAS, and I’m testing microos on my VPS. They’re all solid.
Why Steam OS? It does what it sets out to do, and probably makes Valve a ton of money.
Donations should go to projects that need it. Valve seems to be doing fine.
Making an OS easy to use in everyday life is the key to mass adoption. If the EU wants to get away from Microsoft’s garden, that means advertising valid options to people who aren’t attuned to Linux.
Money isn’t the issue for SteamOS, it is awareness and making it available as an pre-installed option on consumer PCs. The EU could create standardized pamphlets about Fedora, Red Hat, and SteamOS, mandating stores to present that digestable information to consumers so that they know what flavor is best for their usecase.
I don’t see any reason to have SteamOS preinstalled on anything other than a Steam Deck or Steam Machine. Valve is only motivated to ship what it needs to run games, it has no motivation to make a general purpose OS.
That’s why projects like Fedora, Debian, and openSUSE have value, they are motivated to make a general purpose OS. The difference between those and Steam OS for running Steam games is minimal, and the overall experience on those distributions will be better.
There IS reason for preinstallation, there are many people out there who lack the passion to research Linux, and would gravitate towards the familiar - Steam, in the case of gamers. The point is to make a switch away from Windows as unproblematic for as many people as possible. Also, Valve is developing a desktop version of Arch SteamOS.
That project already exists for those than want it: Bazzite and Nobara. Both of those are about as simple as you can get to get up and gaming.
on another note… Microsoft export their software and OS to almost every one of our users’ pc while US doesn’t buy any of our OS. Using Trump logic, we need to tariff US
EU governments are probably the only path to mainstream adoption for desktop Linux. If they all did it and invested in the features they needed, it could provide a valid option for mainstream office use.
😍 they know the good stuff
Nobody should ever use the internet without uBlock Origin.
But also, I’d like we should be able to use internet without having to use uBlock Origin…
Agreed.
Advertising should be illegal.
Its super scary that there are many people not using it.
Yeah, whenever I hear people complaining about ads, I’m like “You guys are seeing ads?!”
I could understand if you needed to be some 1337 hacker to block ads, but uBlock is one of the easiest extensions I’ve ever used. You just set it and forget it. There’s zero configuration you need to do.
Of course, if there’s some ad that slips past, then you need to do some hacking, but that almost never happens nowadays.
It’s a cultural problem.
Most people won’t install adblockers unless they’re around others to tell/show them how.
I know the answer. People is lazy unless they have interest in it. Everybody wants happiness biologically but nobody makes a move to have it. People hate Windows, tries to remove Edge, make performance settings, use 3rd party awful things to improve Windows, but nobody gives any other OS a try. Same thing for the browsers, extensions like that etc. People think its matrix-ish and something weirdo. Who would use Matrix instead of Discord? Who would use any FF fork instead of Opera GX or Chrome? Who would use Lemmy and any ActivityPub media instead of Meta products or Reddit etc. We are full of prejudice, and dont want to move out from the comfort zone. We dont want to make a important choice for our privacy-safety unless it become viral in TikTok.
Friends don’t let friends surf unprotected.
An open source package that would replace adobe would be a game changer.
Which Adobe?
The building style?
Someone’s been living in a cave.
That can replace adobe, well done!
I would sacrifice my first unborn kid for this.
People really would rather sacrifice their unborn child than pay $20 a month smh.
Why not? OP probably got a vasectomy, so there’s no chance that unborn son is happening anyway…
Unethical LPT: Get a vasectomy then offer your firstborn child for material gain as often as you like knowing they can never collect.
This sounds like the set up for an ancient Greek tragedy.
I would also sacrifice your first unborn kid for this.
Truly the spirit of FOSS
Gimp/inkscape
I wonder how Scribus is doing these days.
Worth noting: Affinity, while not open-source, can be brought to run under Linux. This may be helpful for people wanting to ditch Windows.
Does it run well? Ps under Wine is a laggy and unstable mess
I can’t help with personal experience unfortunately. I think some (a lot?) of people are satisfied, but one does need some tech skills to get it up and running.
Instructions are out there in various github repos, some of them also link to volunteer support channels.
Or instructions in German here: https://linux-content.org/so-installierst-du-affinity-photo-designer-und-publisher-unter-linux/
The “english” setting does nothing.
It changes the UI text of the website, such as filters, titles, and sorting options, but not the descriptions.
I can’t decide which is worse, a functioning language switch that never included English for the descriptions (which is the only text I actually need translated) or a broken language switch. The way it switches languages is also quite odd, as if it’s asking, ‘Are you sure?’"
just the way the French like it
If they really want to boil our piss, put “English (American)” as the only option. Or or, a little American flag next to “English”. Oo, I’m engaging myself right now.
