@kevinrns thanks, but this is just linking back to the original article in French as its source (https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes) which still doesn't claim that all government computers will move to Linux..

but this is an interesting case study so let's try to figure out where they get their info from. so the link you sent has this subtitle:

France moves 2.5 million government devices to Linux by autumn 2026

now, what is the source for that? None given in the title, but later on the article says:

France just handed Microsoft a termination notice for 2.5 million government devices. The Interministerial Digital Directorate issued an official directive requiring all ministries to develop Linux migration plans by autumn 2026.

The rest of the article is about other stuff irrelevant to our question. So, let's check the sources. There'a two links in the paragraph above, the first one is just a list of the different French government bodies (irrelevant), the 2nd one is another blog article which only has 1 relevant source: the article from the French government that we were already discussing! I have now read this very short article at least 15 times. it makes no mention of 2.5 million devices moving from Windows to Linux!

It just says that this department called DINUM "announced that it is leaving windows for Linux" and, later on, it says that other governmental agencies have been asked to "prepare a plan of action to reduce extra-european dependencies" by autumn 2026.

It does not say that they will all have moved to Linux by autumn 2026! For all we know the plan of some of these agencies might end up concluding that it would be too much effort to ditch Windows and that there's nothing they can do about it.

So, it seems the article you sent it basically inventing some "facts" from thin air..

now, there is one interesting bit left in your article:

AI assists in refining our editorial process, ensuring that every article is engaging, clear and succinct

so... that might explain why some "alternative facts" got in there. We shouldn't trust AI-generated stuff!

@kevinrns

thanks.. this blog post seems even worse than the other one:

• it has no link to any source
• it is basically a translation of the original French government article
• it also seems to invent some facts such as:

"The migration will affect approximately 2.5 million civil servants across France."

this 2.5 million number is coming back but it is unclear where it is coming from.. maybe this article is a spin off of your other, AI-generated article?

DINUM, which employs around 250 personnel, will initiate the transition by migrating its own internal workstations to Linux, serving as a pilot phase before broader deployment across ministries.

yeah.. 250 people is not the same as 2.5 million. Only those 250 people will actually migrate to Linux. The part about "broader deployment" seems unsubstantiated..

individual departments are permitted to select distributions and define migration timelines based on operational requirements, a measure intended to reduce compatibility risks and accommodate legacy systems.

that sounds a bit closer to the truth which seems to be that the migration plans that all other agencies have to prepare may not involve migrating immediately, that they don't know what they're migrating to, and probably that they might not migrate at all.

Anything else?