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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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The petition is open to all EU resident. The goal is to replace all Windows in all public institution in Europe with a sovereign GNU/Linux.

If the petition is successful it would be a huge step forward for GNU/Linux adoption.

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[โ€“] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We exclusively use Windows on our user's devices (over 10k devices!) and don't have to support anything else. We end up with problems like those all the time.

  • occasionally all installations become blocked no matter what means or which user, requiring reimaging to resolve.
  • DisplayPort connections mysteriously failing and requiring reboots of the device and sometimes also the dock or monitor. Sometimes we even have to swap the cable out, even though the cable will continue to work in another setup just fine.
  • using a different brand of dock than the ones we have at our hotelling stations and disconnecting for any length of time causes wifi to fail until reboot
  • wifi at the office mysteriously stops working as you move around the building, requiring restart

None of our Linux test devices experience any of this.

[โ€“] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

Do you have 10k Linux laptops though? The places where I worked saw issues like this for a significant fraction of the dozens of Linux laptops (most people used Macs). There's no way you could scale that issue rate to 10k machines.