@Gina in the Swiss Government our PoC is done for some time now and result document will soon be out https://www.bk.admin.ch/en/boss-poc-feasibility-study
I really hope that we'll do more in this direction, although I always feel like too many people want and "all or nothing big bang approach", that just won't work well with such a deeply integrated system like Windows and other MS products.

@Gina Mageia Linux is a good choice, because if I remember correct is not under a big company and the base of the distro is on France.

@Gina There have been a few studies now that suggest if you want to migrate, you should slowly transition the users over to the replacement applications first, but keep them running on Windows. Only later do you get them to change the operating system. Switching the OS forces a big bang transition of everything at once that's bound to have issues which may be unfairly attributed to the OS swap.

@Gina This is exactly the kind of move I’d love to see happening more across Europe! 🤩

@Gina because it is about interoperability (as you said), I hope more than one GNU/Linux operating system, e.g. a mix of Ubuntu and Debian GNU/Linux

@Gina ArchBTW

@Gina I won't believe it until I see it in effect 

@Gina Hope they don't choose a systemd distro, age verification could be hard when you're 1000 years old :)

@Gina #Netherlands, I wish you the best in this. If you need any help, please consider hiring me, as this sort of thing is my specialty. I've been using #Linux since 1998, and I have a degree in Computer Science, as well as 5 years experience as a Linux Systems Administrator/devops.

@Gina How great would it be if public entities would conduct this type of investigation in an open and transparant manner. It would save having to reinvent the wheel time after time.