darko

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Trump recommends 50% tariff on European Union starting June 1 in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] darko@feddit.org 5 points 9 hours ago

Well I know for medium and large companies it may not be easy, depending on what cloud services they currently use. But for micro and small companies, that use cloud storage, and maybe some virtual machines in the cloud, there is no excuse. A Linux VM is a Linux VM no matter whether it is hosted on Aws or OVH cloud

Trump recommends 50% tariff on European Union starting June 1 in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] darko@feddit.org 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Companies have the option to migrate to EU providers to avoid the taxes on their infrastructure. Yes I know it's not that easy. Bite the bullet or pay the tax.

Should we start a Citizens EU Countries Initiative to make the european FOSS alternatives the default in the EU public administrations systems software stack? in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
[–] darko@feddit.org 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The aim of the initiative would be to express to the EU commission the citizens desire to become less dependent on the big tech companies. I appreciate the complexity you mention, but it would be the commission to work out what is achievable or not. My view is that everything is, it's just the question of timeframe. There are areas, e.g. my school example, that would be easier to transform, other areas as you say more difficult. But we need to drive this and keep on the pressure, otherwise nothing will change. It's already great to see that we are talking about it

Should we start a Citizens EU Countries Initiative to make the european FOSS alternatives the default in the EU public administrations systems software stack? in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
[–] darko@feddit.org 36 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes, but extend it to school education as well. Governments are spending millions if not billions to purchase laptops with Windows for schools. Why can't we teach our kids the basic digital skills on Linux? If their first experience is with Linux, they will stick to that.

Equal opportunity for Linux - let us choose at the checkout what operating system we want for our laptop in c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
[–] darko@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

"No OS" will not make it to the average internet user, which is 99% of the population. If they have to select, they will select windows. The remaining 1% will figure it out, but that 1% won't make any impact. We need a model that would pave the way for Linux to the average internet user.

Equal opportunity for Linux - let us choose at the checkout what operating system we want for our laptop in c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
[–] darko@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

The issue is that 99% of people don't want to install an OS, they just want to have a computer that they can use as is. I'm not saying my proposal would be ideal, but something needs to change in the current model otherwise in 10 years time we will still be whining about Microsoft's 90% market share

Equal opportunity for Linux - let us choose at the checkout what operating system we want for our laptop in c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
[–] darko@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for reviewing it, I will fix these tonight!

Equal opportunity for Linux - let us choose at the checkout what operating system we want for our laptop in c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
[–] darko@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

I tried to find the Windows equivalent of this to compare the prices, but they don't make it easy...

Equal opportunity for Linux - let us choose at the checkout what operating system we want for our laptop in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
[–] darko@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah that is good news, but as you say, it should be the standard. I'm wondering if they make any donations for Ubuntu. I know they don't have to

Equal opportunity for Linux - let us choose at the checkout what operating system we want for our laptop in c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
Equal opportunity for Linux - let us choose at the checkout what operating system we want for our laptop in c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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Equal opportunity for Linux - let us choose at the checkout what operating system we want for our laptop (backtoeu.eu)
 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/11958306

As we all know, the EU loves regulation, sometimes even overregulation. One area where I feel that regulation would help is computer hardware sale. When I want to buy a laptop and I visit the online retailers, normally 80% of the laptops come with Windows, 10% Linux and 10% Freedos or without any. I would very much welcome if the EU made it mandatory for manufaturers to offer the choice of OS when buying a new laptop. Just like you chose the color, how much RAM you wanted, SSD size, you could also chose what operating system you want it with. As part of that, manufacturers would be obliged to send a fix donation after every sold piece to the corresponding Linux distro team, which would help the chronic underfunding issue. Not sure how much the manufacturers pay for Windowsfor the license, but theoretically the Linux equivalent machine should be cheaper even after the donation. Any views are welcome.

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Equal opportunity for Linux - let us choose at the checkout what operating system we want for our laptop (backtoeu.eu)
 

As we all know, the EU loves regulation, sometimes even overregulation. One area where I feel that regulation would help is computer hardware sale. When I want to buy a laptop and I visit the online retailers, normally 80% of the laptops come with Windows, 10% Linux and 10% Freedos or without any. I would very much welcome if the EU made it mandatory for manufaturers to offer the choice of OS when buying a new laptop. Just like you chose the color, how much RAM you wanted, SSD size, you could also chose what operating system you want it with. As part of that, manufacturers would be obliged to send a fix donation after every sold piece to the corresponding Linux distro team, which would help the chronic underfunding issue. Not sure how much the manufacturers pay for Windowsfor the license, but theoretically the Linux equivalent machine should be cheaper even after the donation. Any views are welcome.

[Weekly thread] Did you notice a change in your shopping habits recently? in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
[–] darko@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

MagicEarth

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