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France’s digital agency dumping Windows desktops for Linux
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France’s Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) will drop Windows desktops, and adopt Linux instead.
Key facts
- France’s entire civil service employed 5.8 million people in 2025
- Let’s be kind and assume the agency employs 500 people, or 0.008 percent of France’s civil service
- American entities Meta, Intel, and Red Hat take the top three spots, Google is number four, AMD is ninth and Oracle America Inc rounds out the top 10
- France’s Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) will drop Windows desktops, and adopt Linux instead
Summary
DINUM announced the swap last week during an interministerial seminar that saw several government agencies try to create momentum for development of sovereign technologies that reduce France’s dependence on non-European technology. A government statement about the seminar included a quote from Minister of Public Action and Accounts David Amiel to the effect that “The State can no longer simply acknowledge its dependence; it must break free. The statement cited DINUM’s plan to develop a videoconferencing platform called “Visio”, designed to help France’s government break free of American tools like Zoom, Teams, Webex, and Google Meet, as one example of a step towards sovereign tech. France’s entire civil service employed 5.8 million people in 2025.