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A petition has been created by an Austrian EU rep. to replace Windows with GNU/Linux in all Europe (www.europarl.europa.eu)
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The petition is open to all EU resident. The goal is to replace all Windows in all public institution in Europe with a sovereign GNU/Linux.

If the petition is successful it would be a huge step forward for GNU/Linux adoption.

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That uninstalling python2 bit reminds me of stories of users deleting their system32 folder to free up disk space.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah except that uninstalling Python 2 is a perfectly reasonable thing to want to do.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 hours ago

Since Gnome depended on it, they would have had to intentionally push past warnings to force the uninstall, assuming they're using a distro with a dependency mapping package manager... So, no, that's not a perfectly reasonable thing to do

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Not if an essential part of the OS depends on it (your "UI")

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago

Which the package manager would have warned them about.

Meaning they deleted it manually instead of using the package manager OR just ignored all warnings and forced the uninstall.

These were too intelligent but too dumb for their own good user errors lmao.