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Yet another European government is ditching Microsoft for Linux - here's why (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org

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[–] Libb@jlai.lu 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The 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 ;)

[–] manxu@piefed.social 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] pleksi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.