https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-state-ditches-microsoft-for-linux-and-libreoffice/
I guess these few lines sums up what’s this all about:
“The term digital sovereignty is very important here. If a public administration uses proprietary, closed software that can’t be studied or modified, it is very difficult to know what happens to users’ data.”
The Linux Experiment makes a great point as well, which is that we shouldn’t be paying taxes only for our governments to then turn around and use closed-source software which funds just one company. This is happening on a global scale because most governments use M$ OSes. It is actually ridiculous.
I think this will be happening alot in the upcoming years. Especially now that microsoft restricted the use of windows 11 for many pcs because of TPM and such I can see that many businesses do not want to deal with all that nonsense or upgrade thousands of comupters at once. Also to be honest windows nowdays ships with tons of adware. Not entirely sure on how windows 11 LTS is going to be but im guessing that it will still come with hardware restrictions.
I mean Linux is growing, we have hit 4% and with how microsoft has been playing its cards it will for sure keep growing.
the idea is good, at least better than go with Microsoft, even better would have been if they fork an open source Linux distro, Fedora is even questionable because it is tied to Red-Hat which is corporate controlled.
I wonder what distro they will end up adopting, I would say probably one that would be backed by a corporation for support… Redhat-Suse-Canonical
I think they should endeavour! 
lol that would be a nightmare for the sys admin that takes the job…
they would proabably last 3 days at XD
EndeavourOS just rolls updates and upgrades. It’s magical and it’s purple. 
Actually speaking about purple a custom built gentoo version could be one of their top options.
It would make sense to me to see them go opensuse. Born in Germany. 
yeah for sure the option that makes more sense
Actually speaking about purple a custom built gentoo version could be one of their top options.
doubt that, it has to be a simple Linux, for “normal” people, not for nerds
Your talking about endeavouros! 
well in an environment like that you would not allow users to upgrade and install packages. That would be done by the sys admin by compiling the packages on a server and distributing the built packages trought it.
So to be honest it doesn’t really matter if its simple or not. As users would just have the needed programs installed and what runs under it would totally be out of their view
still simple enough, but gentoo ? no
Gentoo? OMG no! That’s just too much. 
ChromeOS was built using portage so why not 
But yeah at the end support is what something like this is seeking for. So definitely not. I vote for suse, it makes the most sense.
a think we can agree on opensuse 
I think it would be sensible to go opensuse and not some home grown linux fork. I also wouldn’t want to see them using ubuntu either. Suse linux is even used here in stores for online payment with different methods.
yeah its clearly one of the options they are evaluating for sure. Its a great option even tho I would definitely not adopt it myself as I don’t like all the political nonsense that involves this 3 corporations we talked about.