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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 39 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 14 points 13 hours ago

You are right, sadly going FOSSS and back again is a German federal government hobby since decades. I hope this time it sticks.

[–] MuAraeOracle@real.lemmy.fan 42 points 1 day ago (2 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

They changed the politicians after that stunt. Good Germans!

[–] Novocirab@feddit.org 2 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] kane@femboys.biz 16 points 1 day 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.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

seamless haha, but ya, LibreOffice is sick

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They even have a mastodon instance where their government is on too @landesregierung@social.schleswig-holstein.de . 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...

[–] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's right in the headline?

[–] atro_city@fedia.io -3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

It’s a linked toot, which also says 30,000? And the article it links to says 30,000 in the first paragraph?

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 2 points 11 hours ago

Good grief, reading comprehension is terrible here.

Nearly a year ago, we posted about the German state of Schleswig-Holstein’s plan to move 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice.

The next paragraph says what the article is about

Now, Stephane Fermigier from EuroStack – which promotes European technological sovereignty and open source – has posted an update, citing an article in the German c’t Magazin. It discusses various reasons for the migration to LibreOffice and Linux, including:

If you read the linked article you'd also realise it doesn't mention how it's progressing, just their timeline. Hence my question: how is it progressing?

[–] Revanee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 points 23 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.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 18 points 1 day ago

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

[–] testman@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

This made me aware of EuroStack

[–] d7sdx@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] SrMono@feddit.org 2 points 14 hours ago
[–] SheenSquelcher@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

Wow. They're really going for it.

[–] zingo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Might as well put openSUSE on them.

[–] Melchior@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Melchior@feddit.org 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

They plan to pay for some development. Mainly in replacing Microsoft Active Directory, which has to be replaced using a number of different open source projects for different features and apparently those lack some features they really want. There are only a few large users of desktop Linux so those administration tools very much need some work.

[–] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 hours ago

Great News. Thank you :)

[–] thijsje@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 13 hours ago (4 children)
[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 4 points 13 hours ago

Because SUSE is a German company

[–] Melchior@feddit.org 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Governments want a stable distro, which has great general support and the option of hiring developers for additional features. If something breaks government workers can not do their jobs, so it costs money anyway. So having professional people behind it, who can be talked and fix the problem quickly is something a government really wants. In addition to that, they require some niche features, which need to be developed. In other words, they really want a stable distro with a professional team behind it and as it happens Suse is the only such company in Germany. Even better they already have experience in dealing with government agencies and well speak German. The alternatives would be CentOS or Fedora from RedHead or Ubuntu from Canonical. However those are not German or European.

[–] thijsje@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 2 hours ago

@Melchior Ah thats a clear and enlightening reply. Thank you for taking the time.

[–] brot@feddit.org 3 points 13 hours ago

Suse is a german company and therefore Suse Linux has some improvements for german users. And if you're doing it to get away from american companies to get your own sovereign OS, that totally makes sense. Better localization and from your country. And the support might also be in German

[–] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Because it's European Based, and I guess they won't bother to test and approve multiple Distros for a single state