cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28006908

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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    5 days ago

    Should this ever be the case, I am sure that Linux would become more popular, simply because the same computer would be cheaper just because of the operating system choice. Windows licenses aren’t cheap.