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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

This has been long coming and has nothing to do with the tarrifs or even Trump. Germany has been trying to switch to Linux and LibreOffice for some years now because of the unwanted reliance on big tech.

Just wanted to say this because it might look like something that could be done because of the current US bullshit, which isn't the main reason.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting how difficult this transition would be, it’s a lot of work. From an IT standpoint, but also from the users, most likely will cause a bit of friction.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I thought it was pretty seemless, personally, but I hate Word.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

seamless haha, but ya, LibreOffice is sick

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

This made me aware of EuroStack

[–] MuAraeOracle 26 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Let's hope Microsoft doesn't move their headquarters to that state, as they did with München.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

To be fair, though, iirc a lot of IT corporations have their German headquarters in Munich.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Might as well put openSUSE on them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Sort of the plan, but I am not sure what Linux distro they are using.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Some Employee of Schleswig Holstein posted a few days ago that he's finally allowed to use Linux on his work laptop, and that it's OpenSUSE that's approved. But I would hope that they would support the Linux Ecosystem by either paying developers or buying a subscription for the Suse Enterprise Linux

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They even have a mastodon instance where their government is on too @[email protected] . I can't find information how many PCs have been migrated though... Am I missing something?

P.S Hopefully Microsoft doesn't pay off some politicians to switch back like in Munich...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's right in the headline?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 hours ago

Thanks, I see you only read the headline and not the articles linked. Congrats.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 hours ago

Let’s hope they also use some of the money saved to support the development of LibreOffice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

Wow. They're really going for it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe this is going to be the year of the Linux desktop after all

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Been dreaming for a long time, but maybe with all this murica dumbshit, it's the closest we've ever Bern.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Its devinetively getting closer sadly the market share dropped in the last few months down to 3.8%. The death of Windows 10 however will push this up quite a bit I guess.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago