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A petition has been created by an Austrian EU rep. to replace Windows with GNU/Linux in all Europe (www.europarl.europa.eu)
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The petition is open to all EU resident. The goal is to replace all Windows in all public institution in Europe with a sovereign GNU/Linux.

If the petition is successful it would be a huge step forward for GNU/Linux adoption.

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That uninstalling python2 bit reminds me of stories of users deleting their system32 folder to free up disk space.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah except that uninstalling Python 2 is a perfectly reasonable thing to want to do.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago

Not if an essential part of the OS depends on it (your "UI")