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Re:France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on U... by oscord on Friday April 10, 2026 @01:30PM (#47721248)
Ditch iOS and Android for a Blackberry OS / Nokia ? Really, are there any alternatives?
Re:France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on U... by amarant on Friday April 10, 2026 @01:40PM (#47721359)
SailfishOS, Ubuntu touch, and postmarketOS to name a few from the top of my dome.

Nokia isn't really an alternative at all since M$ bought it.

Re:France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on U... by unethical_ban on Friday April 10, 2026 @02:47PM (#47722071)
Motorola and grapheneos? If only the French government weren't attacking Graphene.

As for desktop, I suppose the only major European options are Ubuntu and SUSE with corporate backing.

Re:France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on U... by microtonal on Friday April 10, 2026 @02:57PM (#47722184)
The French government and Murena (makers of /e/OS). They are spouting nonsense that security hardening is only for pedophiles and spies:

https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/116353...

https://www.clubic.com/actualite-604786-murena-e-os-intervie...

It's ironic that a company that pretends to be for privacy is using the same think of the children argument as those pushing Chat Control, age verification, etc. Of course, their privacy is mostly a farce, since they have also been caught uploading data to OpenAI for text-to-speechi

I hope that more European governments will start supporting GrapheneOS, since it can compete with Apple on security and is better than Apple and GMS Android when it comes to privacy.