Can't possibly be the US constants threats against their sovereignty lately.
I guess they're just unfair to good and honest American cooperations
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025
253 points (99.2% liked)
Europe
6311 readers
885 users here now
News and information from Europe ๐ช๐บ
(Current banner: La Mancha, Spain. Feel free to post submissions for banner images.)
Rules (2024-08-30)
- This is an English-language community. Comments should be in English. Posts can link to non-English news sources when providing a full-text translation in the post description. Automated translations are fine, as long as they don't overly distort the content.
- No links to misinformation or commercial advertising. When you post outdated/historic articles, add the year of publication to the post title. Infographics must include a source and a year of creation; if possible, also provide a link to the source.
- Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. Don't post direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments. Don't troll nor incite hatred. Don't look for novel argumentation strategies at Wikipedia's List of fallacies.
- No bigotry, sexism, racism, antisemitism, islamophobia, dehumanization of minorities, or glorification of National Socialism. We follow German law; don't question the statehood of Israel.
- Be the signal, not the noise: Strive to post insightful comments. Add "/s" when you're being sarcastic (and don't use it to break rule no. 3).
- If you link to paywalled information, please provide also a link to a freely available archived version. Alternatively, try to find a different source.
- Light-hearted content, memes, and posts about your European everyday belong in !yurop@lemm.ee. (They're cool, you should subscribe there too!)
- Don't evade bans. If we notice ban evasion, that will result in a permanent ban for all the accounts we can associate with you.
- No posts linking to speculative reporting about ongoing events with unclear backgrounds. Please wait at least 12 hours. (E.g., do not post breathless reporting on an ongoing terror attack.)
- Always provide context with posts: Don't post uncontextualized images or videos, and don't start discussions without giving some context first.
(This list may get expanded as necessary.)
Posts that link to the following sources will be removed
- on any topic: Al Mayadeen, brusselssignal:eu, citjourno:com, europesays:com, Breitbart, Daily Caller, Fox, GB News, geo-trends:eu, news-pravda:com, OAN, RT, sociable:co, any AI slop sites (when in doubt please look for a credible imprint/about page), change:org (for privacy reasons)
- on Middle-East topics: Al Jazeera
- on Hungary: Euronews
Unless they're the only sources, please also avoid The Sun, Daily Mail, any "thinktank" type organization, and non-Lemmy social media. Don't link to Twitter directly, instead use xcancel.com. For Reddit, use old:reddit:com
(Lists may get expanded as necessary.)
Ban lengths, etc.
We will use some leeway to decide whether to remove a comment.
If need be, there are also bans: 3 days for lighter offenses, 7 or 14 days for bigger offenses, and permanent bans for people who don't show any willingness to participate productively. If we think the ban reason is obvious, we may not specifically write to you.
If you want to protest a removal or ban, feel free to write privately to the primary mod account @EuroMod@feddit.org
founded 11 months ago
MODERATORS
It's actually more because of the ICC chief who lost access to his mail, as is described in the article. We cannot risk that happening to our officials.
We just want free stuff - communist Europe and all that
As far as I know, it's only the Danish ministry for digitalisation who wil try to drop Microsoft for a short period. This is not all of Denmark. They even said that if it proves too difficult, they will return to Microsoft
They even said that if it proves too difficult, they will return to Microsoft
And, unfortunately, I'm pretty sure they'll decide it's too difficult. They'd need capable linux-admins and helpdesk personnel, training for employees and someone to deal with the people who just won't even try to change. All of that costs money (and time, but that's the same thing), and quite a lot of it at first and benefits will come slowly over time.
They should have a distro that looks like Windows XP, I think they would win a lot of support for that.
Well the good thing is that it is a country that already is very digital and to some extend used to change.
If there is a country that should be able to make the change pretty straight forward icd expect it to be Denmark Germany or Norway
I heavily doubt Germany could make that change. It's pretty analog country still on a lot of things and stuff like card payments aren't available everywhere. My bet would be Estonia. Here in Finland we're pretty digital on everything already but a crapload of offices (both public and private) are pretty heavily married to M365 (and microsoft in general) environment and workflows and have been for quite a while so even if I would absolutely like to see the change I don't see it happening any time soon.
And then there's the plain scale of things. You can find at least half decent windows helpdesk/admin staff everywhere but (at least in here) similar linux knowledge just isn't around. Plus then there's areas where linux just don't have replacements on windows environment. Basic desktop stuff is easy, but replacing AD forests with GPOs just doesn't have similarily easy replacement. There's of course workarounds and you can get similar end results but you'll need a skilled admin and pretty tightly controlled environment to do that.
Hell yeah to more Linux!
Because they're smart and they want to establish free, open-source software as the norm.
Surprise they will be back
for Windows 12, maybe?