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European governments are increasingly moving away from Microsoft Windows and Office to Linux-based alternatives, driven by concerns over digital sovereignty and data privacy. Denmark, Germany's Schleswig-Holstein, and French cities are leading this transition, citing worries about US political influence over American tech companies and the need to maintain control over government data. The shift is accelerated by Microsoft's push toward cloud subscriptions and recent incidents involving service disruptions to international organizations under US sanctions.

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That’s amazing, however, I am still unsure what they are trying to accomplish. Even if you move your desktop environments to Linux, and still have your overall services in the cloud, you are still having the same problem. Putting the blame on the government of America is weird when the entire focus is shifting the supposed “kill switch” to another government and still make a privacy claim. Moving any infrastructure from one supposed entity of a government control or local organization does not fix your autonomy over it. If the concern is really about privacy and not relying on American institutions as a whole for the sake of country, moving your desktop OS is a minor step. Overall cloud services, tooling, and having your own forks to have actual control is a what you are looking for, I doubt governments will see that as an expense they want to take or be responsible for. They will only do as much as they need to do to make a claim while still relying on third party, which even if European in nature, still might have servers with American companies.

The other day I went to te health insurance and all their computers were on CentOS. Guys Linux is winning

Which Linux Workstation distro will they use that provide premium support? Red Hat is not the option as they are American Entity. And on top of that, they need to migrate from Microsoft windows application and Cloud service to alternative, let’s see how this work out.

With Microsoft’s need to shove telemetry and data mining into every part of the OS with no real means of controlling it, I don’t blame the EU at this point. MS used to at least try to innovate with every major iteration. Today, they just copy what the other techbros are doing.