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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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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

Which the package manager would have warned them about.

Meaning they deleted it manually instead of using the package manager OR just ignored all warnings and forced the uninstall.

These were too intelligent but too dumb for their own good user errors lmao.