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German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating (arstechnica.com)

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Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germany’s 16 states, on Wednesday confirmed plans to move tens of thousands of systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The announcement follows previously established plans to migrate the state government off Microsoft Office in favor of open source LibreOffice.

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[-] nevm@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

Munich (not the same area as mentioned in op but i could be wrong) have ping ponged for over a decade (maybe 2) with LiMux.

Looks like Debian based.