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The entire French government is abandoning Windows for Linux. It is absolutely possible to change the entire ecosystem; just hard to hit that catalytic point, but more and more people are going that way, thankfully. Maybe they'll even eventually find Lemmy!
I think the Dutch are doing it as well. I'm all for it, when I switched my laptop over from Windows 11 to NixOS, it stopped running at like a 100 degrees while doing nothing more than streaming video and light compiling.
Sweet, go Netherlands! And I also wanna move my desktop to NixOS! Got any tips or warnings for a first-timer who's mostly used just Mint?
I would recommend being familiar with config files and comfortable with the command line and bash. It's a very powerful being able to rebuild your OS at will. I would also look into Bazzite if you are interested in immutable distros.
I recommend firing up a virtual pc first with the distro first to get a feel for it.
I'm still grieving over XMPP. We could have an amazingly decentralized messaging platform. Google even based their own GoogleTalk over XMPP for a while, but a cluster of walled proprietary bullshit services won in the end, and Google layer switched to their own proprietary bullshit.
My good sir, the modern equivalent already exists and is called: https://www.matrix.org/
That's causing a lot of chaos in the online world isn't it?
France switched to OnlyOffice and Nextcloud, and now there's a feud between the two. I can't imagine using an office suite that's possibly a dead-end fork of a company that's fighting with the cloud drive I use to upload my documents.
There will be short-term chaos, but now you have a sovereign entity with a huge amount of money creating a market for solutions to those problems.
It also makes it so that standards become more important than whatever latest feature is included in .docx files. Fancy capabilities do not mean much when you can't send the files to the government without converting them into a standards-compliant format.
With broad adoption of standards comes the ability for competition to build compatible products and services. Microsoft can't just change Word or Edge in a way that breaks the software of competitors if nobody is trapped in their walled garden.
They saw that only office had sketchy ownership and couldn't work with them, so a group of EU companies including nextcloud have forked it and are working on Euro-office. The license violation argument is just a tantrum from onlyoffice