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[โ€“] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

2025, the year of the Linux desktop

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Plot twist: theyโ€™re switching to TempleOS

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

12 years since it was released, zero remotely executable code vulnerabilities. By some measures, the most secure operating system of the 21st century.

Your move, FreeBSD.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Lyon have I waited

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

I hope this continues and gives other governments a blue print

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

The whole country next! Vive France! Vive Linux!

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

The dominoes are falling. Windows is nothing but a legacy burden at this point. Soon we will be rid of this worthless operating system.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I'm not a Linux user (yet) but this is going in the right direction. There will probably be some struggles and fails but on the long way I trust this I'd fully worth it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Trump is the only person who could've forced the EU to pull this off. I'm so glad the USAians voted for him. It's one of the few things they got right.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This (the larger trend anyway) has actually been long time coming, when Windows started spying on you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Not sure that's related to trump in any way

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ces sont des trรจs bonnes nouvelles, merci! (and sorry for errors)

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ce sont de trรจs bonnes nouvelles, merci !

Close enough, well done

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

โค๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I guess both are grammatically correct, non?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

โค๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why is OnlyOffice getting traction all of a sudden?

Is there something it does well that LibreOffice doesn't?

I'm always a bit dubious about new software, especially something as massive as an entire office suite.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Not an expert but I've read comments that it handles complex MS Office-created documents better than Libre Office, as internally LO converts everything into ODF, even if it will be saved in original MS file format. IIRC Only Office, SoftMaker, and WPS leave the file in MS format, leading to less unwanted changes.

[โ€“] Sunshine 4 points 1 week ago

The computers breathed a sign of relief!