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.

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.

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 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...

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

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

This made me aware of EuroStack

Libre 🙃

Wow. They're really going for it.

Might as well put openSUSE on them.