Yet another European government is ditching Microsoft for Linux - here's why (www.zdnet.com)
from Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 18:31
https://piefed.social/post/939384

#linux #open source #technology

threaded - newest

feddinand@feddit.org on 16 Jun 19:07 next collapse

It’s Schleswig-Holstein (a german state) and they’re pretty serious about it (they want to fully move to Open Source / Linux in the next three months)

Buffalox@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 20:30 collapse

The article states it’s 30000 users! Doing that is 300 users per day! People who probably also want extra support initially.
It would be extremely impressive to do it that fast.

crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org on 16 Jun 23:25 collapse

Surely with the money they would save in licensing they can hire more support staff to help bridge the gap

Buffalox@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 07:12 collapse

I’m not concerned about the economy but the logistics.
They will hopefully get it done, but I doubt they can do it in 3 months.

makyo@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 21:13 next collapse

Saved you a click - because they’re ‘done with Teams’

NotProLemmy@lemmy.ml on 16 Jun 21:36 next collapse

Still, pretty good.

F**k corporations.

macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 01:03 collapse

*fuck. You can say fuck on the internet. Don’t worry, we won’t tell your mommy.

voytrekk@sopuli.xyz on 16 Jun 23:15 next collapse

I don’t blame them, Teams is trash. It’s the worst software that I have to work with on a daily basis.

macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 01:03 next collapse

You must be computer illiterate then.

crank0271@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 02:29 next collapse

You must never have used Teams

voytrekk@sopuli.xyz on 17 Jun 03:25 next collapse

I know how to use Teams. I know its trash because the layout is unintuitive and the UI is slow. I know these because all of the other sites and applications I use do it better.

Feathercrown@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 14:55 collapse

To truly understand how trash it is requires the opposite actually

makyo@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 07:51 collapse

Absolutely agree with you there. I have so many gripes with M$ UI/UX in general but the Teams team really seems to have taken it to new shitty levels.

hansolo@lemmy.today on 17 Jun 05:48 collapse

Also, because this was news like 6 months ago and has been posted and reposted here roughly 84 million times.

StonerCowboy@lemm.ee on 17 Jun 12:53 collapse

Lemme has a mega hard on for Linux and just wants to continue to keep pushing the narrative with their 2% OS.

hansolo@lemmy.today on 17 Jun 14:40 next collapse

As a daily Linux user… Yeah.

pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip on 17 Jun 15:14 collapse

Umm… Actually. 4.06%! Which still fully supports your point.

I couldn’t resisit commenting on it though, because I’m on Lemmy and my act of commenting furthers your point, as well.

So everyone wins. Especially Linux on desktop. It wins twice, because I like it so much.

SplashJackson@lemmy.ca on 16 Jun 22:27 next collapse

Is it cause Microsoft can go suck a fuck?

meyotch@slrpnk.net on 17 Jun 00:39 next collapse

It is exactly because Microsoft does suck fucks.

Aggravationstation@feddit.uk on 17 Jun 05:40 collapse

*How exactly does one suck a fuck? * By installing Windows of course.

T156@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 08:53 collapse

How exactly does one suck a fuck?

With consent, of course.

squaresinger@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 20:35 collapse

Except that Windows does it without.

FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au on 17 Jun 02:27 next collapse

Same reason as all the others - “digital sovereignty”.

TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 07:37 next collapse

I am actually getting tired of these rhetorical questions written as headlines. Just say what you want to say!

callouscomic@lemm.ee on 17 Jun 08:42 next collapse

Yet another shitty article title, here’s why

atlien51@lemm.ee on 17 Jun 21:37 collapse

This is the kind of news I want to keep seein’!