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.
1 year (and a few days) old article. How did this turn out?
found this update from 1 month ago:
https://euro-stack.com/blog/2025/3/schleswig-holstein-open-source-digital-sovereignty
what the actual amount of progress is seems to be buried under bureaucracy-speak but I got 3 useful sentences out of it so far:
so to me it seems they’re currently slowly doing a MS office -> LibreOffice transfer, but they’re still all using windows (as the use of “group policy” implies)