France quietly deployed 100,000+ Linux machines in their police force - GendBuntu is a silent EU tech success story
Posted by AnonomousWolf@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 108 comments
NailGun42@reddit
2025 the year of the linux desktop
Accurate_Hornet@reddit
Unironically yes:
Denmark, Germany and France are going foss.
SteamOS is on a warpath.
Non-tech influencers are talking about it.
Framework is recommending linux distros on their website.
Nvidia support, anticheat and creativity software are still holding it back though.
AnEagleisnotme@reddit
France has been going FOSS for 15 years, Gendbuntu is really old, and they have been requiring libreoffice in schools for as long as I've been alive
skuterpikk@reddit
They should have gone for Gendoo though, Gendbuntu is to bloated and less optimized.
^(I'll see myself out)
Altruistic_Cake6517@reddit
Hold up, if LO is required in French schools, why the actual F are they not throwing a few € their way to pay for a developer or two more, and, and, and, how about a UX expert?
AnEagleisnotme@reddit
Libreoffice received money from the state for a while, but I think they stopped doing it around 2015
DestroyedLolo@reddit
Unfortunately, not everywhere. As an example, I had an interview w/ an entity providing guidelines to local organisations. I gave up because the interview finished by "you know, our portfolio is only microsoft ". Ok, ok
BudgetAd1030@reddit
Denmark is NOT GOING FOSS !!!!
A single danish goverment department is installing LibreOffice on 45 employees workstations...
Accurate_Hornet@reddit
Very reductive take. That is only the testing phase, and Copenhagen and Aarhus want to follow. Is that groundbreaking news? Not really, but a government body switching to foss is good news nonetheless.
BudgetAd1030@reddit
But this isn't some "OMG DENMARK IS GOING FOSS!" kind of news - and that's actually my biggest objection.
Open source is not a new concept in the Danish public sector at all.
There are around 15 municipalities using a Danish Ubuntu variant: https://www.os2.eu/os2borgerpc
Also, on a side note:
When I was a kid, the schools in the municipality I lived in used StarOffice (which is what we now know as LibreOffice - and everybody hated it, by the way. Even the kids couldn't stand that office suite. And honestly, LibreOffice hasn't changed much in that regard - the project still looks like it's stuck in the late '90s).
I also once gave my sister a laptop with Ubuntu and LibreOffice for school work. But she didn't wanna use it and preferred pen and paper instead, saying: "The office is ugly."
So yeah... I'm not overly optimistic on the Danish departments' behalf. But good luck.
SEI_JAKU@reddit
Right, so you're another LibreOffice hater. Why bother hiding it?
BudgetAd1030@reddit
Just to be clear, I'm a daily Linux desktop user and definitely not anti-LibreOffice. I want it to succeed. But let's be honest, it still struggles with UX and polish, which makes broad adoption difficult, especially in schools or public institutions.
LibreOffice can't succeed when people's first reaction is "yikes" just from the look and feel. First impressions matter, and that kind of reaction stops most users before they even give it a chance.
The project needs support from full-time professionals like designers, UX experts, developers, and more, and that requires real funding. If policy makers like Danish minister Caroline Stage truly support open source, they need to back it with actual investment so LibreOffice can compete on equal footing.
Open source enthusiasm is great, but sometimes the noise overwhelms the reality. If we want LibreOffice to thrive, we need less hype and more support.
SEI_JAKU@reddit
No, it doesn't. People are saying "yikes" because they've spent years getting used to the ribbon. Before then, LibreOffice was recommended because of how it looked, because nobody liked the ribbon at the time. Never mind that LO literally has a ribbon mode anyway, the entire idea that LO has a "UI problem" is manufactured, and is itself a problem.
The "noise that's overwhelming the reality" is this narrative you're trying to peddle right here. There are too many naysayers spreading misinformation, and even too many outright Microsoft shills, running around these Linux subreddits spreading FUD. Don't be a part of that.
BudgetAd1030@reddit
LibreOffice feels like it was designed by John from Accounting, the guy who started working in the '80s, back when offices were gray, chairs squeaked, and "user experience" meant not accidentally overwriting your floppy disk.
And LibreOffice reflects that:
LibreOffice isn't bad at getting things done, it's bad at making you want to do them. It opens like a time capsule, and for most users, that's where the experience ends.
If the goal is to serve long-time power users and open source purists, then mission accomplished. But if LibreOffice wants to appeal to everyday users, students, professionals, institutions, it needs more than just features. It needs a fresh design language, modern UX thinking, and a reason to care beyond "it's free."
Because right now, it still feels like it's built for John, and most of us aren't John anymore.
SEI_JAKU@reddit
This is a bunch of slop. Not one word of what you wrote is interesting, relevant, or even funny. You've never seen a "1998 freeware CD" in your life. At no point are you actually concerned about people actually using software.
BudgetAd1030@reddit
You're right - I never owned a 1998 freeware CD. I just time-traveled through LibreOffice's UI.
And no, this isn't about being "anti-FOSS" or nitpicking for fun. I care about the people in the Danish public sector having the best tools available to do their jobs. Most of them aren't engineers - they just need software that works and feels intuitive.
LibreOffice could be that tool, but right now it still looks like it's trying to impress higher-level management at Sun Microsystems back in 2004.
But hey, maybe John from Accounting and the ghosts of StarOffice still feel right at home.
d00nicus@reddit
It gives me flashbacks to MS Works 95
It is utterly irrelevant that people applauded it for not being Office ribbon styled years ago, it’s the impression it makes on contemporary users today that matters. It absolutely needs to keep current with what users of today want, not some past group from years ago.
Having just read this thread it doesn’t feel like they’re actually engaging with any of your points , but pre-deciding that anything that isn’t praise is just being a hater of the product or FOSS altogether. Criticism is good, echo chambers of nothing but positivity create stagnant products.
SEI_JAKU@reddit
What points? Where are the points in any of BudgetAd's posts? It's just 100 variations of the same awful joke, and they have one very specific personal gripe: to them, LibreOffice looks "old", and this is somehow "bad". There is no useful criticism in this claim at all, because there is a very specific reason BudgetAd feels this way, and it is not a good reason.
I am so tired of people typing up whatever they want and expecting everyone else to read it carefully, simply because it was typed up at all and this somehow needs to be automatically respected. Everyone loves to talk about "constructive criticism", nobody wants to acknowledge destructive criticism. Nobody wants to acknowledge the countless echo chambers of mindless negativity that actually pollute the internet.
d00nicus@reddit
Not here to teach you how to read buddy.
Two sentences is my limit to waste on people responding in bad faith, have a great day.
DonaldLucas@reddit
It's so funny when people make such a big deal out of this. I'm Brazilian and I remember somewhat 15-20 years ago the government here also tried to switch to libre office, and even to Ubuntu, back in the day, but most of the public workers hated it and after some months they switched back to MS Office and Windows.
I really hope that the European experience ends differently, but I'm not too optimistic about it yet.
wq1119@reddit
Fellow Brazilian who recently switched to Mint two months ago here, people not liking FOSS alternatives for Linux because they have been used to their Windows counterparts for decades is going to be a big block to get average people to switch to Linux, most of the people I heard of who tried Linux but returned to Windows gave the simple reason of "I didn't liked so I just went back to Windows".
I have been having a lot of issues with the image and video editing software on Linux as someone who only used stuff like MS Paint, Paint.net, Photoshop, and Sony Vegas, but hey I can be stubborn in me hating Windows and wanting to learn Linux and FOSS in the long-term, and so I am trying to learn and adapt Linux, the same cannot be said for the average non-tech savvy population.
DoctorDabadedoo@reddit
Usually Excel, Photoshop and gaming are what people miss the most. Gaming has improved tremendously over the past few years with Steam, but I understand the other two if you are a power user and are as used to macros as breathing, hard to mimic with software with astronomic budget for 4 decades.
But speaking of the OS itself, Linux is so much better it doesn't compare. All the ads in windows 10 and 11 are unbearable. I've been using Linux for the better part of 20 years with dual boot, but this year it might happen, I'm fed up.
BudgetAd1030@reddit
Yeah, I'm afraid they'll really hate it.
Honestly, I hope that one day LibreOffice finds a money tree or gets a large EU grant, so they can hire UX experts and finally bring their software up to modern standards and meet user expectations for productivity tools.
To paint the picture, just look at their documentation page: https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/english-documentation it looks like something straight out of the wild early days of the web in the '90s. For comparison, here are the Microsoft Office online help pages: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365
The whole LibreOffice project has a strong "designed by engineers for engineers" vibe. They use Bugzilla and apparently expect end users to be software developers who are comfortable navigating that kind of environment: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/ (Bugzilla is made by engineers, for engineers.)
I wonder if Caroline Stage, the Minister for Digitalisation, has signed up for LibreOffice's Bugzilla yet. She did say she'd be among the 45 users at the department...
BourosOurousGohlee@reddit
idk the actual documentation is pretty clear
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/05/new_help.html?&DbPAR=SHARED&System=MAC
the sidebar has everything and it doesn't jerk you around with giant flashy banners that actually say nothing
yes I've outed myself as "an engineer".
BudgetAd1030@reddit
I get that the LibreOffice docs technically work, but that's not what I'm pointing out, it's about presentation and user experience. Microsoft's help pages are clean, modern, and inviting. LibreOffice's help site, by contrast, looks like something bundled on a CD-ROM in 2003.
Here's the thing: classic cars get to look old and still be admired. There's history, charm, and pride in that. But there's no such thing as classic software. When software looks outdated, people assume it is outdated, and that kills interest fast.
Saying "it has what you need" misses the point. LibreOffice lives in the productivity and creativity space, where look and feel matter a lot. Usability isn't just about content, it's about confidence, approachability, and design that draws people in. Microsoft wouldn't spend a penny on it if design didn't matter.
xmBQWugdxjaA@reddit
Same, all three universities I worked at in Germany used Ubuntu entirely.
The real progress needs to be made on services like BankID, etc. so that you can switch with no hassle.
HumanSimulacra@reddit
I guess that's one way to look at it, but it's severely misrepresenting the truth. It's the Ministry of Digital Affairs or Digitaliseringsministeriet and it's a test phase with a possibility of current expansion to around 400 employees aka the entire ministry, depending on the results. The fact that it's the Ministry of Digital Affairs tells me this is just the beginning, as well as their press release clearly highlights digital sovereignty as their main goal, and you don't get much digital sovereignty from just one ministry moving to some other office program.
SEI_JAKU@reddit
A government department attempting to switch wholesale to an important piece of FOSS software is, by definition, "going FOSS".
speaksincliche@reddit
Another contributing factor, i think a massive one, is the rise of ai chatbots. It's now possible to get an instant (and quite accurate; well most of yhe time) answer to the problem at hand. Interested people can then dig deeper into those topics. Those not interested will just iron out a crease and move on. It's unfair to call many idiosyncrasies of linux 'problems', but what is a source of engagement for the passionate users can often be like friction for the casual user.
Accurate_Hornet@reddit
I have successfully used chatbots to troubleshoot some issues. They saved me the trouble of looking through multiple forum threads and wikis. However, I have been using linux for years so I know how to write a good prompt and can tell when an answer is wrong.
A complete beginner would blindly paste "/path/to/file" in a terminal, fail, and then just ask on reddit anyway.
For smaller requests, like how to find a specific setting/extension/software or troubleshooting bluetooth etc.. chatbots can definitely help with the transition from other OSs.
But tbf, people would downvote you for even mentioning chatbots here, while at the same time providing little help when a newbie dares asking a question.
Salamandar3500@reddit
And microsoft just doing everything they can to drive users away.
wq1119@reddit
Microsoft successfully drove me (been using Windows since 2001) and my elderly dad (using Windows since the 1980s) away from Windows to Linux Mint successfully, thanks Microsoft!, really appreciate how you helped both of us!
WadiBaraBruh@reddit
Using windows these days feels like I'm accessing an OS through my browser that runs entirely on javascript
Xambassadors@reddit
we're unironically very close to that lmao the search tab (when you press the windows key) is build on react 🤣🤣🤣 everytime you press it you get a spike for your cpu
WadiBaraBruh@reddit
If everybody using Win11 spammed the windows key in unison you could take down the whole power grid.
oxez@reddit
? Lol. Nvidia has been providing drivers for more than 2 decades on Linux.
Were you gaming on Linux back in 2000? How was your experience with AMD (ATI)?
Just because they don't 100% support Wayland (that no one in the real world uses at this time), doesn't mean that they don't "support" Linux
Accurate_Hornet@reddit
Did you forget the /s bud?
oxez@reddit
Imagine thinking you're so cool that you need to reply that.
I fully expect my previous comment to be downvoted as this subreddit is a joke nowadays, the circle jerking is pretty on point.
Accurate_Hornet@reddit
Nvidia being worse than AMD on linux, while simultaneously being much more popular on desktop PCs, is not exactly a secret.
Wayland being the default on the most popular DEs is not a secret either.
This is not even a matter of opinions, you have made incorrect statements by ignoring well known facts.
oxez@reddit
Based on what ?
Lmao
This place is a fucking joke
Accurate_Hornet@reddit
Does Nvidia ship all of its drivers and graphics stack in the linux kernel like AMD? Does Nvidia consistently work ootb on wayland? Does Nvidia have the same ease of troubleshooting as AMD? Does GPU passthrough on Nvidia generally work ootb?
The answer to all of these is no. Does not mean AMD is perfect and Nvidia is trash. Nvidia is the go to option for CUDA, but for everything else it is obvious which GPU is "better".
eXtc_be@reddit
so what are you still doing here, besides wasting everyone's time? go find another subreddit to post your self-important drivel!
vpShane@reddit
That about sums it up. Windows Recall is a privacy nightmare and we should all be welcoming everybody to Linux desktop world; there's no decent Fruityloops relacements, or 'PhotoShops' but even Photoshop's subscription model is cringe enough. The NVIDIA support and Valve investing so heavily in Arch is a melody to my ears though
shieldyboii@reddit
IMO MS office support is holding it back more than anything.
If I was an employee and got anything less than excel and powerpoint, I would just quit.
Sinaaaa@reddit
Oh please, the UI of LibreOffice is fine, just a bit ugly. Quitting over ugly? Nah.
ScottIBM@reddit
Lack of the use of AMD hardware is holding it back. Nvidia isn't the only game in town.
1ncehost@reddit
This was mostly the state of things in 2010. Linux is better than ever, but we aren't at an inflection point. Linux is still on the warming burner as it always has been.
FattyDrake@reddit
Nvidia support has gotten better, I no longer have FPS disparities between the games I played on Windows. There's still some work, but it's miles better than a year ago. Anticheat is still a problem, but I haven't played League in awhile because it requires a reboot... so an overall positive maybe? :)
Creative software is a mixed bag, but on the music/audio side it's pretty solid currently, and for video you have DaVinci Resolve which has become a go-to choice on Windows and macOS too. Kdenlive is decent too, if not as fully featured.
Art/photography still has issues. Not only with some remaining wacom issues (which are in the works to be fixed on KDE at least), but because Adobe has such a hold on the industry. Krita is on a decent trajectory, just a little slow going. Still not a bad Photoshop alternative, and their drawing is solid enough to attract people on Win/Mac. Inkscape is also on a decent path to becoming an Illustrator replacement since they started to care about product design.
I'm optimistic at least.
Accurate_Hornet@reddit
I would not be surprised if immutable distros become the only way to make kernel level anticheat work on linux.
SEI_JAKU@reddit
The correct solution is to not have anticheat at all because it doesn't work.
mrlinkwii@reddit
tbf germany gose to linux every 3 years and then gose back to windows
SEI_JAKU@reddit
Because they get paid by Microsoft to do so. You know this.
mrlinkwii@reddit
their has been no proof of this , the mian issues they moved back to windows , was linux deplyment going over budget
Accurate_Hornet@reddit
Well the limux project started in 2004. Back then, linux must have been a real PITA
SEI_JAKU@reddit
Whether it was or wasn't, the more important thing is that Microsoft has actively fought Linux adoption over the years. I'm sure they'll try to do the same thing now.
jimicus@reddit
Less than it is for the average user, because commercial users buy PCs in their hundreds or even thousands and every single one is identical.
Typically, you might have only a handful of different models in the whole fleet. Which makes support ten times easier.
If your users have a very narrow, easily defined set of requirements, it's not too difficult. It just becomes challenging when a new requirement comes out of nowhere and part of that requirement includes "must run this particular piece of software which is only available for windows, and no the vendor won't discuss porting it".
mrlinkwii@reddit
it wasnt in 2004 , https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/04/germanys_northernmost_state_ditches_windows/
Accurate_Hornet@reddit
"which it had introduced in the form of LiMux in 2004". But fair enough, and not surprising really. Now the situation is vastly different so we shall see
Great-TeacherOnizuka@reddit
gose
DestroyedLolo@reddit
Because microsoft did a huge lobbying.
DheeradjS@reddit
The Germany one was an interesting one. I know somebody that works in one of the departments and it'll prolly go back.
IT dept got ordered to switch everything over in a week, and half their critical software doesn't work
JohnJamesGutib@reddit
😄 my favorite, evergreen joke about linux
why did the Linux user bring a ladder to the computer store? because they heard the "Year of the Linux Desktop" was still just around the corner
a Windows user asks a Linux user, "when's the 'Year of the Linux Desktop' coming?" the Linux user replies, "same time as Half-Life 3 and world peace. pick your battles"
i've heard rumors that when the "Year of the Linux Desktop" finally arrives, we'll know because all Windows updates will suddenly become optional, and Apple will release a stable, open-source version of macOS
my financial advisor told me to invest in long-term goals, like retirement and the "Year of the Linux Desktop." apparently, they have a similar projected arrival date
the year of the Linux desktop is like a shy groundhog. it peeks its head out with things like Steam OS, sees its own shadow of fragmentation, and goes back into hiding for another 5 years
the year of the Linux desktop was scheduled for 2023, but the planning committee couldn't agree on which desktop environment to use for the announcement. the debate between GNOME, KDE, XFCE, and i3wm is expected to conclude sometime in 2047
the Year of the Linux Desktop is now a subscription service. for $9.99 a month, a developer will personally tell you it's "definitely coming next year"
the Year of the Linux Desktop has been delayed again after the lead developer got a great job offer to maintain Linux-based cloud infrastructure for a major tech company
bzhgeek2922@reddit
Lol gendbuntu was created in 2008, in use in 'gendarmerie' since
Sieger_14@reddit
Yes lately everyone is acting like it's a scoop even though it was done over 15 years ago
Grumblepuck@reddit
When is the year of FOSS Office Suites to rival Microsoft?
INITMalcanis@reddit
There unironically does appear to be more momentum in this direction. Using Windows is now a security risk for any non-US state, and that's far more of a 'push' factor than any ideological arguments from the likes of us.
Additionally, Linux has kept on improving while Windows has kept on getting worse, and the trend has been a sustained one.
minus_minus@reddit
A little funny calling “gendbuntu”.
Gens “people”
Ummtu “person”
People-person.
Sieger_14@reddit
"Gend" stands for "Gendarmerie" in GendBuntu, which comes from "gendarme" (the officer), derived from "gens d'arme", literally meaning "armed person"
minus_minus@reddit
It originates from “gens d’armes”. The term gendarme is derived from the medieval French expression gens d'armes, which translates to "men-at-arms" (lit. 'people of arms').
vetgirig@reddit
Very old news - here it is from 2013: https://www.zdnet.com/article/french-police-move-from-windows-to-ubuntu-linux/
matorin57@reddit
But its the year if linux desktop. We have to keep building the hype! /s
lythandas@reddit
Gendarmerie and Police are not the same in France. The former depends from the Army and the latter from the ministry of interior security. Police are usually present in towns while gendarmerie works more in the countryside.
I_Arman@reddit
So they couldn't get the sound drivers working either, huh. /s
JohnJamesGutib@reddit
they started this transition in 2008 so they got caught in the transition from pulseaudio to pipewire 😏
gajiete@reddit
maybe they want to save costs from previous Windows, I guess from the bright side
Sieger_14@reddit
One of the many other reasons : https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/news/attachment/11-apresentacao-stephanedumond.pdf
mightygilgamesh@reddit
You should have seen what they had beflre linux... They had a Minitel it was quite unique for the 80's but was exclusive to France.
Chance_of_Rain_@reddit
Internet embryo !
mightygilgamesh@reddit
And bandwith was symetrical! I remember when I had DSL connection it was not the case.
Mal_Dun@reddit
France was always an Open Source pioneer, because they always understood that the US mostly serves their own interests.
The French military used their own forked Mozilla products already in the late 2000s and the CEA (the nuclear industry) has many open source solutions.
No_Hedgehog_7563@reddit
I don't exactly understand why they'd prefer a separate distro as opposed to just using Ubuntu. Is the gain in lieu to privacy/usability so big versus the comfort of a well maintained distro?
Mal_Dun@reddit
That's actually nothing new. Government bodies often fork projects to tailor it to their needs. The French military had their own fork of Thunderbird already in the 2000s to get rid of American spyware and is a net contributor to the project.
SEI_JAKU@reddit
Linux is Linux.
Ubuntu is suspicious. If you're going to use it, especially for government use, you need to modify it.
Sjoerd93@reddit
Not sure what you mean. I work at government and run Fedora Silverblue on my main machine.
DestroyedLolo@reddit
GendBuntu is basically a classical hardened Ubuntu but with some specific applications provided. It's more like a flavor than a new distribution.
No_Hedgehog_7563@reddit
Makes sense, i wonder is an eu level distro/flavor wouldnt be better in the lights of more and more institutions migrating to linux.
Symetrie@reddit
Maybe, but they would still benefit from making a flavor specific to the Gendarmerie. This kind of distro is purposely restrictive to prevent the user from removing key packages or breaking the system too much. They are also thouroughly tested on specific hardware, so they can buy a lot of the same laptop model and run the distro without worrying about incompatibilities. They can also force updates with tools like Puppet.
DestroyedLolo@reddit
They have a tool for a centralised administration. By the way, there are the same restrictions on widondows system ... And compagnies tries to keep a small set of model to make easier the maintenance and avoid driver hells even on windows side.
So it's exactly the same rules, whatever the OS.
frankster@reddit
Organisations often make their own builds/customisations of Windows. Every organisation has different requirements - probably none of them are fundamental changes.
DestroyedLolo@reddit
Before a European affair, if other administrations could learn what the gendarmerie did, our huge taxes would be better used (and our security improved) :)
lndianJoe@reddit
They have some very specific needs in term of softwares and security. The Gendarmerie is, technically, its own military corps, which happens to have a lot of civilian police duties. This means that they can have to handle very sensitive files, such as CSI data or classified personal files. I was a lowly desk jockey but still worked with "not for outsiders" stuff. I also had to learn how to handle confidential files, or more specifically how not to handle them but notify the right person.
lazyboy76@reddit
It's a government distro, so they can use some help from ubuntu, but in-house build should be prefer, for security reason. Not that they're better than Canonical, but they have some reason to do it.
ledoscreen@reddit
Yikes... I don't think this is great publicity for the world's most open-source OS. About the only thing worse would be 'All electric chairs in the USA are now Linux-powered'.
zeanox@reddit
why is it bad publicity?
BarrierWithAshes@reddit
Wait until you hear that the Russian military uses Linux.
INITMalcanis@reddit
I believe both China and North Korea have their own Linux distributions as well (good luck getting source code but oh well)
wq1119@reddit
For years there have been hundreds of YouTube videos examining North Korea's Red Star OS distro both serious and comedic ones.
AnonomousWolf@reddit (OP)
Why are you so Anti-Linux? I saw you criticise this in another post for different reasons.
If all electric chairs run on Linux that would absolutely be a win, because the alternative is likely that a greedy big corporate is getting licencing fees for the software that runs electric chairs.
And would probably lobby to keep electric chairs around or have more installed.
ledoscreen@reddit
Haha, no, no, you've got it all wrong! I'm definitely not anti-Linux. In fact, Linux has been the only OS on my PC since... well, since Red Hat 7.1 came out! So yeah, I'm pretty much a veteran.
My point was purely about the optics – using Linux in such a grim context (like electric chairs!) just doesn't make for good PR, even if it's logically sound from a licensing perspective. It's like saying 'Our new ambulance runs on recycled sewage!' – brilliant for the environment, maybe not the best tagline for patient comfort, you know?
So no worries, the 'freest OS' still has my full support!
edparadox@reddit
This was already the case a decade ago.
cryptobread93@reddit
In Türkiye though I've seen the directorate of waters if Istanbul use Linux and Libreoffice. They use mostly web apps anyway. Also they use that to calculate the bills.
savornicesei@reddit
Still not getting it why openSUSE / SUSE can't be used in all UE institutions....
frankster@reddit
I wonder if there are any articles in French publications that describe the rollout from the point of view of the involved technical staff, and from the point of view of the users in the Gendarmerie.
tuxalator@reddit
Project started back in 2004 with Open Source software on 90K systems, and then from 2011 on Gendbuntu is used on 105K computers.
Seebyt@reddit
Can you get your hands on an Image?
FranticBronchitis@reddit
Why isn't it Gendoo
letmewriteyouup@reddit
Gendbuntu
Gendermarie
my Indian bros gonna have a field day with this one 😆
DestroyedLolo@reddit
It started in 2008. Unfortunately, the Police (Gendarmerie is for country side, Police for cities) are still microsoft addict.
The main bad return I seen in the use of Unity which is perceived as "less obvious" compared to classic desktop. Unfortunately, everyone is formated by microsoft and using XFCE or similare should have been better. By the way, feedback are very positive.