My enemy's enemy is my friend. That's why I have a fair phone. I also have contingencies.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025
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X11: even regardless of whatever non-Linux takes the forker holds, forking X11 seems to be such a bad idea. The X11→Wayland migration is being painful, and now we see the light at the end of the tunnel might as well improve Wayland instead. Cue to the next piece of news (Ubuntu and Manjaro ditching X11).
I wonder if Denmark ditching Microsoft is directly related to Schleswig-Holstein doing it. Specially given they're neighbours.
Google ditching Android: may I be honest? I think smartphones are wrong the grounds up. They should be more like miniature PCs; in this case, meaning "if you're able to run an OS in a PC, you should be able to run it in a phone, and vice versa". But of course hardware vendors give no fucks, right? PC-isation of smartphones means people replacing parts too, and noooo, you can't have people not ditching their whole phone after few years!
These companies hate PCs because of the flexibility and choice. Thus Chromebooks, et al. Lock that stuff down and channel any installs through a single point of control, and do it by convincing anyone who needs a secure application that they don't need to work too hard at it, the closed system will protect them.
I wonder if Denmark ditching Microsoft is directly related to Schleswig-Holstein doing it. Specially given they’re neighbours.
It's not, but our direct neighbors announcing it first surely helped the people lobbying to get it considered. It's also not the entire Government, just a small portion of it. Some municipalities have already been using Linux on user-facing computers like in libraries and I'm sure on the inside, as well.
The discussion is up because of the current American administration, and would continue to be up regardless of if Schleswig-Holstein or anyone else announcing their intentions to do the same.
It happened due to Microsoft disabling an Internation Criminal Court lawyer's Office 365 account. This has spooked EU officials that a rogue US administration could harm it and there's a stronger push now for digital sovereignty.
Got it - thanks for the info.