Schleswig-Holstein looks to succeed where Munich failed.

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.

    • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      I am certain that the software has improved a lot in 20 years.

      Back then it was a bold move. Today, doable? I’ll be following this.

    • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      17 days ago

      20 years ago desktop Linux wasn’t nearly as good as it is nowadays. They were also influenced by Micro$oft lobbyists, who threatened to move their headquarters out of Munich, causing millions of lost tax revenue for the city.

    • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show
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      17 days ago

      Because they went about it the wrong way. They made their own distro, their own office suite etc. I believe they would have been successful, if they just used already existing stuff, instead of reinventing the wheel and taking on all the development obligations.

      What Schleswig-Holstein is doing, is using en established distro, with established office suite and established cloud solution. They only maintain the servers and maybe patch-fix issues, which they could then upstream.

      • Ananace@lemmy.ananace.dev
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        17 days ago

        They actually did a study on it after rolling back to Windows, and it turned out to not have failed due to technical difficulties at all.
        If I recall correctly they stated that something like 80-90% of all issues reported during the period were due to badly designed processes - processes which were the same as in Windows, and the number of technical issues actually dropped.

        Certainly, the fact that Microsoft promised to build a fancy new HQ in the city if they switched back to Windows can’t have had anything to do with the choice to roll back…

    • DerGottesknecht@feddit.org
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      17 days ago

      I’m sure the newly built Microsoft Germany headquarter in munich had nothing to do with that. There was a lot of lobbying and badmouthing of limux at the time.

      In 2020 there was a new decision in munich to go with open source wherever possible.