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German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating (arstechnica.com)
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Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germany’s 16 states, on Wednesday confirmed plans to move tens of thousands of systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The announcement follows previously established plans to migrate the state government off Microsoft Office in favor of open source LibreOffice.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago

Great, now Germany gets slapped with additional 10% tariffs, because of penguins.

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    1 year (and a few days) old article. How did this turn out?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    found this update from 1 month ago:

    https://euro-stack.com/blog/2025/3/schleswig-holstein-open-source-digital-sovereignty

    what the actual amount of progress is seems to be buried under bureaucracy-speak but I got 3 useful sentences out of it so far:

    Configuration via group policies

    MS Office can remain installed in parallel, until October 2025

    Goals for october 2025: LibreOffice should be the sole standard office software on around 70% of the state administration's IT workstations

    so to me it seems they're currently slowly doing a MS office -> LibreOffice transfer, but they're still all using windows (as the use of "group policy" implies)

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    • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Let's hope they are successfull and let others migrate as well. The more migrate, the less likelier a failure is

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Didn't they do this once before, like early 2000's?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That was the city of Munich. It was sold as a success in creating freedom and saving millions, but they still went back to Microsoft.

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    • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Munich did it before and then they crawled back to Bill Gates and begged to take them back: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Schleswig-Holstein therefore follows the general strategy to move towards an open source driven administration. In fact, several federn institution already migrated to the openDesk administration bundle (https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/opendesk/). Great!

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    [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is this the year of the Linux desktop?

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