@nixCraft This is not true.
The police is still on Microsoft, and the 15 millions € migration cost to Win11 has made the headline 1 or 2 weeks ago.

The Gendarmerie Nationale is an army corp, not police. And they switched to linux a long time ago. It was not easy (as I’ve learned during a training at ANSSI) high rank officers have received threats when the project of migration to Linux started.

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the news is factually right.
It say that is concerning Gendarme (a police force) and the project started long time ago (in 2005 with the end of XP support)

It's not something that started with a finger snap. It take 2 decade and now with a great part of their infrastructure migrated they can say confidently it's a success and there's no reason that they will go back

For this kind of thing, it's hard to say when it's a success. There's no clear point of when

@Atropine Original post: "France quietly deployed 100,000+ Linux machines in their police force": no, it was not quiet but in all the media (above one example). And "fast forward to 2024": no, it's a very old story, not news. The testing was earlier, too.
News is that the French police (not the gendarmerie) sticks with Windows and was in the media because they produce e-waste with the update to Win11.
Don't explain me French police differences, I live in France. 😜

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