The Netherlands Built a Nix-Basd Linux Desktop Because Microsoft Cut Off the ICC

lordkrandel

Woah, it was about time Europe started ditching Microsoft and it's political ties

blakeashleyjr

I hope this advances corporate management tools for Linux (and NixOS specifically). Remote management is the toughest part that comes easy for corps on Mac and Windows.

DawsonDerWend

Nice to see. The more effort put into FOSS by big actors, the more we all thrive.

JulioFerrero

I would love to see more countries in the European Union do the same, if the Netherlands can do it well, the rest of the countries can too.

ChrisArchitect

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841563

eadwu

This is going to end horribly. NixOS is not suited for general workstations, to even get a semblance of rationality for general use you would need to develop the underlying infrastructure which you are not going to get from a government unless they are diehard sponsoring it (spoiler alert, in the current climate, pretty much as nil as it can get). Pretty stupid choice of action - seems to be a more nationalistic play than a rationale one (the creator and the Foundation are based in the Netherlands which is what they are referring to).

winstonwinston

General desktop replacement is not easy to pull of (successfully). It seems weird to start with replacing windows or macos rather than SaaS and IaaS, which they are concerned about the most. In the end they still going to use phones with software from Google and Apple.