On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It appears US President Trump is good for Linux. > > >From "This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice > and Linux - here's why", > <https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-city-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-onlyoffice-and-linux-heres-why/>: > > Is it something in the water? First, it was Denmark bidding Microsoft > adieu. Then it was the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Now it's > Lyon, France's third-largest city and a leading economic hub, sweeping > Microsoft Windows and Office suite away to replace them with Linux, > OnlyOffice, NextCloud, and PostgreSQL. > ... > > Training for 10,000 civil servants began in June 2025. Lyon's > migration to Linux is being closely watched as a potential blueprint > for other municipalities seeking greater digital independence and > sustainability. Who knows, the "Year of the Linux desktop" may finally > arrive not because people have grown tired of Windows' manifold > problems or Linux's advantages, but because governments are worried > about putting all their IT eggs in one US-based Microsoft basket. >
France's Military moved from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice back years ago. Hopefully more government organizations will make the move. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
