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Interesting article from a generalist magazine. According to it:

  • Best Preinstalled Phone: Fairphone 6 With /e/OS
  • Best for Pixel Phones: GrapheneOS
  • Best for Non-Pixel Phones: /e/OS
  • For the DIY Tinkerer: LineageOS
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[–] Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml 11 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

The EU is looking for tech independence

Issues of whether or not the EU is actually looking for tech independence aside… I find it remarkable that open source software offers so much potential for breaking free from US-dominated tech giants like Microsoft and Google, for relative pennies, and no one seems to want to pursue it. I imagine a country like France or China could develop versions of Linux (for desktop, mobile, and other applications like spreadsheets or web browsers) that blow away what we currently have for a cost that would be a rounding error of a rounding error in their current state budgets. Not sure why this hasn’t already happened, tbh.

[–] derAbsender@piefed.social 6 points 17 hours ago

Support.

Governments or any Organisation chooses either windows or Apple because there is a Support system in place they can rely and Shit on if Shit goes sideways.

[–] linule@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Seems like they have been just sleeping on it.