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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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[–] 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.