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.

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 16 points 3 days ago

You are right, sadly going FOSSS and back again is a German federal government hobby since decades. I hope this time it sticks.

[–] MuAraeOracle@real.lemmy.fan 43 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Let's hope Microsoft doesn't move their headquarters to that state, as they did with München.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

[–] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

They changed the politicians after that stunt. Good Germans!

[–] Novocirab@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago

To be fair, though, iirc a lot of IT corporations have their German headquarters in Munich.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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...

[–] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's right in the headline?

[–] atro_city@fedia.io -3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks, I see you only read the headline and not the articles linked. Congrats.

[–] DarkDarkHouse 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It’s a linked toot, which also says 30,000? And the article it links to says 30,000 in the first paragraph?

[–] Revanee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Been dreaming for a long time, but maybe with all this murica dumbshit, it's the closest we've ever Bern.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago

Its devinetively getting closer sadly the market share dropped in the last few months down to 3.8%. The death of Windows 10 however will push this up quite a bit I guess.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 19 points 4 days ago

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

[–] kane@femboys.biz 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I thought it was pretty seemless, personally, but I hate Word.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

seamless haha, but ya, LibreOffice is sick

[–] testman@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

This made me aware of EuroStack

[–] d7sdx@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Libre 🙃

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago

Fixed 🙃

[–] SheenSquelcher@lemm.ee 6 points 4 days ago

Wow. They're really going for it.

[–] zingo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Might as well put openSUSE on them.

[–] Melchior@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sort of the plan, but I am not sure what Linux distro they are using.

[–] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Melchior@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They plan to pay for some development. Mainly in replacing Microsoft Active Directory, which has to be replaced using a number of different open source projects for different features and apparently those lack some features they really want. There are only a few large users of desktop Linux so those administration tools very much need some work.

[–] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago

Great News. Thank you :)

[–] thijsje@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

@albert180 @Melchior why specifically OpenSuse?

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 4 points 3 days ago

Because SUSE is a German company

[–] brot@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago

Suse is a german company and therefore Suse Linux has some improvements for german users. And if you're doing it to get away from american companies to get your own sovereign OS, that totally makes sense. Better localization and from your country. And the support might also be in German

[–] Melchior@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Governments want a stable distro, which has great general support and the option of hiring developers for additional features. If something breaks government workers can not do their jobs, so it costs money anyway. So having professional people behind it, who can be talked and fix the problem quickly is something a government really wants. In addition to that, they require some niche features, which need to be developed. In other words, they really want a stable distro with a professional team behind it and as it happens Suse is the only such company in Germany. Even better they already have experience in dealing with government agencies and well speak German. The alternatives would be CentOS or Fedora from RedHead or Ubuntu from Canonical. However those are not German or European.

[–] thijsje@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 3 days ago

@Melchior Ah thats a clear and enlightening reply. Thank you for taking the time.

[–] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Because it's European Based, and I guess they won't bother to test and approve multiple Distros for a single state