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With the world changing around us, many governments and organisations are trying to reduce their dependency on tech giants. Here's an update on how one German federal state is moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice (and longer-term, Linux): https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/...
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.
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...
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.
Some Employee of Schleswig Holstein posted a few days ago that he's finally allowed to use Linux on his work laptop, and that it's OpenSUSE that's approved. But I would hope that they would support the Linux Ecosystem by either paying developers or buying a subscription for the Suse Enterprise Linux