Losing government contracts hurts microsoft more than anything consuners can do. How long until microsoft hires mercenaries to destabilize europe?

It seems to me someone already must have hired the US government to do just that, for the last 2 years at least.

Shhhh. Those sensationalist claims make it easier for us to convince people in our institutions to migrate

Same for France, it's only a pilot project in the digital directorate, about 250 devices if I recall correctly. But they are also building a NixOS config.

Pretty sure it's because NixOS is reproducible. You can send your configs to your friend and they'll get a file-for-file identical copy of NixOS to yours (obviously except the user files)

NixOS goes deeper than Ansible/Chef/Puppet. Those options use a declarative config, but they operate on a mutable system - in particular a system with a mutable package manager. They try to run the necessary operations to change the system state to match the config. But it's not guaranteed that you get exactly the same state if you roll back and forth between declarative config revisions, especially since there are parts of system state outside the scope of the Ansible/Chef/Puppet config.

OTOH the Nix package manager is immutable down through the package manager, and also through system config files (which are linked to the current config generation in the Nix store). If you use a lock file then the NixOS config describes the exact state of every package, and of every managed config file.

It has been going fairly well as I understand it, it also helps that they are actually putting money behind it.

That went well until Microsoft coroos in suits showed up and said no sir stop doing that.