- Channel: Micha van den Burg
Overview
The French government is migrating 2.5 million workstations from Windows to Linux, and the distro they picked shocked me. This video breaks down the real reason Europe is fleeing American software, what the US Cloud Act means for your data, and why Linux skills are about to be in serious demand.
We cover the shift to NixOS inside France’s digital affairs directorate, the Ubuntu-based distro already running 100,000+ Gendarmerie machines, and the EU OS project taking shape right now. You’ll see how declarative config works, why it mirrors Terraform and Kubernetes manifests in real DevOps work, and my honest take on whether NixOS is worth your time if you want a tech job. Spoiler: I still say learn Ubuntu first, and I explain exactly why.