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The Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony | Why it's so important to ditch Microsoft software in favor of EU alternatives (kolektiva.media)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Not that I don't (started to) hate M$, but why always just them? What about oracle? Or all the major CRMs? Or adobe? Or.... They all are totally not European.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

iโ€™d say microsoft is the biggest threat because they hold a lot of critical dataโ€ฆ if oracle snuffs out of existence, companies can probably migrate reasonably easily (donโ€™t get me wrong there would be gnashing of teeth but alternatives exist), CRM there are EU alternatives (ERP, whilst different, is i think a superset of this and yall have SAP which is german) which tend to throw money at companies wanting to switch, adobeโ€ฆ i mean, they donโ€™t really hold business critical data - itโ€™d be disruptive, but not catastrophic if they disappeared

microsoft however hosts huge amounts of business critical data - email, one drive, sharepoint, office, and of course windows: itโ€™s easy to say that email migration is easy, foss alternatives exist for all of this, but the data is particularly problematic and getting users to embrace a whole suite of new systems is pretty difficult

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

I think (partly) because Microsoft proved we have a point and the rest hasn't yet. Not as major as blocking a judges access to his email at least.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For me it's mostly down to Microsoft being such a douche about their Windows 11 upgrade. My windows 10 PC can apparently not do thd upgrade due to "incompatible hardware" but at the same time I can still run pretty much everything I like to play / do just fine. It's really making me consider switching to Linux, I might give it a shot on an old laptop soon and if that goes smoothly then I'll switch on my other PC as well. No need for Windows anymore if they're pushy and there's a good alternative available.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If you do try Linux, I highly highly recommend Linux Mint, since it's the most newbie friendly.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Or else, https://distrochooser.de/ might be a useful help to make a suitable choice (which probably comes down to Linux Mint or Zorin anyway)

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd rather recommend an immutable distro like bazzite. Mint was ok, but pretty messed up if something didn't work. If you mess up your immutable distro, all you need to do is reboot.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Immutable distros will likely become the standard in the future, but at the moment I think they're a poor choice for newbies since there's very little documentation around them, very few people who can help if something goes wrong, and often can introduce their own problems due to flatpak permissions that require their own specialized knowledge that a newbie won't have.

When I tried bazzite, I encountered an issue that someone else had reported on the forums months ago, which had never received a response due to how stretched thin the UBlue team are.

Mint on the other hand works fine 99% of the time, and has heaps of help resources available for it. It also strongly suggests setting up a snapshot of your system that you can rollback to if anything ever messes up, which pretty much puts it on par with bazzite in that department.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

When I last tried Mint a year or so ago, the onboarding told me how to set up automatic Timeshift snapshots.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

If you decide to dual-boot because you still need windows for whatever reason, try the mass grave script and turn it into windows iot, same windows with updates till 2032

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

And right it is. No American influence!