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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)

submitted 1 week ago by erin@social.sidh.bzh to c/linux@programming.dev

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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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[-] bustAsh@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago

My main worry with Linux becoming more popular is that it will be attacked with more malware and viruses. I wouldn't mind though if Linux programmers could come up with better protection.

[-] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 53 points 1 week ago

Linux is already what a decent chunk of servers run, so I don't really see it increasing malware.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, servers don't generally run Thunderbird and Firefox

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 week ago

Most of the Windows malware gets deployed by some user downloading and executing random files they downloaded on the web. Since installing applications on Linux is usually done through some centralized package manager or app store (Flathub), it almost entirely eliminates this attack vector. Running random scripts from the internet by downloading them using curl and piping them into sudo bash is a whole nother issue though. Noob-friendly distros like Ubuntu should IMO have some safeguards in place to block these actions.

[-] pixelscript@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

Since installing applications on Linux is usually done through some centralized package manager or app store (Flathub), it almost entirely eliminates this attack vector.

xz moment.

Yes, I see that weasel word "almost" in that sentence. I expect it's going to be doing increasingly heavy lifting as Linux becomes a more lucrative target to attack over time.

Your point generally stands, though. Even if they're fallible, at least someone is vetting it at all somewhere in this pipeline.

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

They have, snaps

[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Linux-based OSes are less uniform than Windows. They could and probably will be targeted, but exploits won't spread because of how many verities they are and how different and incompatible they can be. Some, for example, don't even use the GNU utils and userland.