The entire French govt is moving off MS, and this will be very very good for open source and European developers in general.
https://linuxiac.com/france-launches-government-linux-desktop-plan-as-windows-exit-begins/
I expect all European countries will follow suit in the coming years.
Microsoft must be terrified and livid with their administration. What will this cost them?
It would be great to have some regulation (EU is great at it) to make mandatory for computer distributors to have drivers available for linux / bsd system.
That would solve a lot of issues with such migration.
@uramihsasum a better organisational lever is to *require* that major vendors must provide full specifications for their systems, to be supplied as part of their bid documentation. I think in most cases this would be largely sufficient for enabling open source to build those drivers.
Otherwise we end up with a world of Windows-like blob drivers, that comply on paper with whatever requirements are placed on them, but are broken in ways that can't be fixed by open source communities.
I agree partly.
Full specification would be great but might be too big to ask. Also users of such products should not solely rely on open source developers agenda.
I know it's simplistic approach but some driver that does the job (even badly) is better than none.
It is pain that since I first experimented with linux desktop (20 years ago) the installation / setting experience have not changed much.
If you are lucky you got a wifi from the right provider, also to set a screen properly that does not flicker it feels pure lottery. Not to mention make two screens work at the same time.
Would be great to have the bare minimum for up and running such system are built in.
(Great topic by the way, I appreciate you raising it)
dch 
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