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German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating (arstechnica.com)

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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.

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[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

According to the Wikipedia article they changed their mind and decided to stay on LiMux.

[–] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

I don't know where you're getting that. The German article says the city government said they'd keep LiMux, but despite that statement all PCs got Windows instead.