PieFedYet another European government is ditching Microsoft for Linux - here's why
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www.zdnet.com/article/the-german-state-schleswi…
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LibbThe war in Ukraine revealed our energy dependencies, and now we see there are also digital dependencies."
Better late than never.
Thinking about it, no matter how odd, it looks to me like the EU (and FLOSS) will have to send a warm thank you note to Trump ;)
Trump is one half. The other is Microsoft and their idiotic (policy of declaring virtually all existent government hardware not good enough for Windows 11.
I'd take a lot of pain if it means I don't have to buy entirely new computers for all my staff, and get ready to do that again when Windows 11.1 or Windows 12 comes out.
Meanwhile linux nowadays is ridiculously easy to install and can be run without issues on hardware that is almost 10 years old. I just bought an 8th gen i3 mini desktop machine for 100€ and it runs all my selfhosted services plus functions as a desktop. The bootup and general speed of the OS is on par with a 2000€ pc or mac for regular office use. Planned obsolense is obviously the reason you cant use those machines for more than 5 years without installing linux on them (especially the pcs)
People should stop buying new computers unless it’s needed for llm’s or games.
Maybe we should try some positive "letter writing campaigns" whenever we see positive change like this.
Imagine the bureaucrats and politicians of Schleswig-Holstein being flooded with positive responses from across Europe.
I feel it would make politicians more inclined to reject any Microsoft meddling to overturn these decisions.
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“the German state of Schleswig-Holstein will phase out all Microsoft software from government workplaces. The goal is to fully transition from Microsoft programs to Linux and open-source programs within the next three months.”
macnielI didn't know that the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein constitutes as an European government.
It's like those news sources constantly try to repackage old news in regards to Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein ditching Microsoft.
edgemaster72"We're done with Teams!" declared Digitalisation Minister Dirk Schrödter, speaking via an open-source video platform, in his announcement that the German state of Schleswig-Holstein will phase out all Microsoft software from government workplaces. The goal is to fully transition from Microsoft programs to Linux and open-source programs within the next three months.
It’s Schleswig-Holstein (a german state) and they’re pretty serious about it (they want to fully move to Open Source / Linux in the next three months)
The article states it's 30000 users! Doing that is 300 users per day! People who probably also want extra support initially.
It would be extremely impressive to do it that fast.
Surely with the money they would save in licensing they can hire more support staff to help bridge the gap
I'm not concerned about the economy but the logistics.
They will hopefully get it done, but I doubt they can do it in 3 months.
Saved you a click - because they're 'done with Teams'
I don't blame them, Teams is trash. It's the worst software that I have to work with on a daily basis.
Absolutely agree with you there. I have so many gripes with M$ UI/UX in general but the Teams team really seems to have taken it to new shitty levels.
Still, pretty good.
F**k corporations.
Also, because this was news like 6 months ago and has been posted and reposted here roughly 84 million times.
Lemme has a mega hard on for Linux and just wants to continue to keep pushing the narrative with their 2% OS.
As a daily Linux user... Yeah.
Umm... Actually. 4.06%! Which still fully supports your point.
I couldn't resisit commenting on it though, because I'm on Lemmy and my act of commenting furthers your point, as well.
So everyone wins. Especially Linux on desktop. It wins twice, because I like it so much.
Is it cause Microsoft can go suck a fuck?
It is exactly because Microsoft does suck fucks.
*How exactly does one suck a fuck? * By installing Windows of course.
With consent, of course.
Except that Windows does it without.
I am actually getting tired of these rhetorical questions written as headlines. Just say what you want to say!
This is the kind of news I want to keep seein’!