Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft: why it's happening & why it could fail.
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They try this every 5 years or so. Microsoft gives them some short term discounts and they come running back back.
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every user converted to linux is a win
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Any bit of user base growth helps get the ball rolling for future MS/USA missteps. Linux has just been getting better and easier year after year. It's been a 30 year marathon ready for another 30+ years of development
Hopefully this helps increase adoption. Maybe in a few years GNU+Linux will have 10% of the desktop operating systems market. Maybe even Wine won’t be necessary anymore except for legacy software.
It can't fail, unless MS pulls a monopoly stunt or bribe politicians... There's only a win, by ditching MS...
One alternative is that it only applies to companies that are listed as gatekeepers in the EU make it only hit megacorps
Good F#$%^ riddance.
I can't wait until Lemmy's Peertube integration is released ^[1]^. Then, iiuc, this comment section should be able to happen directly on The Linux Experiment's videos within Lemmy.
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- Type: Comment. Author: "Nutomic". Publisher: [Type: Post. Title: "Better federation for Peertube content". Author: "Kalcifer" ("K4LCIFER"). Publisher: ["GitHub". "LemmyNet/lemmy".]. Published: 2023-08-06T21:41:29.000Z. URI: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3837.]. Published: 2025-03-27T08:28:52.000Z. Accessed: 2025-07-11T00:59Z. URI: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3837#issuecomment-2757172791.
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Actually, most of them already do have deals for a limited time. Skype is still available; they needed a new contract since teams does not work without communicating with Microsoft.
OTOH most things they do is via webclient.
If Microsoft was to release a mandatory update that has a single thing that required it to communicate with the organization, by law the whole governmental EU would not be able to use it.
I think that if Linux is to be more widely adopted a more easily used distro needs to become mainstream. Let's face it, the average computer user barely knows how to use Windows, just because you find Linux easy doesn't mean they will.
Do you think you could teach Linux to your grandmother?
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I am all for ditching Microsoft, but why should this post be in this community? There are also Android, Mac OS, and all kinds of BSD.
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I dont see any issue moving away from Microsoft, in fact I see it as a better world. As the need to use Microsoft office to open government documents would vanish, free office for the masses
This guy does no investigation. He parrots whatever is trending
Just going from the first couple of replies I'm going to go get the popcorn started to count how many people respond without watching the video first.
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Um, why are you linking this from another instance? Here's the link to the original instance: https://tilvids.com/w/v4wYzqLEpaURCg6WP6bqtq
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the decade of the linux desktop!!
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It will fail if we let it fail, we can decide that failure is not an option and figure out how to solve the problems
The fuck you mean why it could fail. We don't tell people to leave abusive relationships because the money isn't quite right or the timing is bad.
My country went through several failed rounds of trying to unify systems used by police, courts, adminstrations... Cost us billions every time and never had anything to show for it. Maybe this will turn the tide.
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