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France has ditched Windows 11 for Linux on 2.5 million government PCs (www.techradar.com)
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Frances switchted to Linux on 2.5 million PCs

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[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 25 points 2 weeks ago

It’s not like they don’t need staff to support windows.

[-] towerful@programming.dev 7 points 2 weeks ago

I read it as "pick up support for the FOSS projects" as opposed to user IT support.
So, contributing to the FOSS.
Even sponsorship would be awesome, in a "we can't do the tech stuff, but here is 10% of what we saved" kinda way

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