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A petition has been created by an Austrian EU rep. to replace Windows with GNU/Linux in all Europe
(www.europarl.europa.eu)
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this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2024
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Double edged sword. Forced adoption of a shitty distro, or a really locked down/limited system might not be a step forward at all.
From memory, Germany did this many years ago, and ended up rolling it back?
No, it isn't a double edged sword. Even a mediocre distro would be better than Windows, any distro would be cheaper than Windows, and there's no reason to choose a bad distro anyway.
No one wants to choose a bad OS environment, it will become one due to security or other non-negotiable requirements.
They aren't going to just toss Ubuntu on a box and call it done. Itll be locked down, limited, and horrible to use. And users who dont know any better will blame "Linux".
A government SOE Linux just isnt going to be a good ambassador for general desktop usage.
You mean just like Windows?
Just like windows, except that the misdirected hate when the SOE environment gets in the way will be aimed at "Linux" instead of "Microsoft".
No, but it will mean apps get written for Linux, due to market share
Maybe. I suspect most of the government apps will be webapps, and not particularly relevant to the rest of us.
Maybe Firefox will get some funding :D
So they can blow it on functions they cancel :)
if you read the petition, it's not for a security reason that it has been created but RGPD one... So with privacy in mind, it can be a not great but good distro