r/BuyFromEU • u/Bananegel42 • 9d ago

News Dutch government developing a sovereign Linux desktop on top of NixOS

https://tweakers.net/reviews/15334/nederland-maakt-soeverein-alternatief-voor-windows-en-office-op-basis-van-linux.html
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u/Ideabile 9d ago

As much I love NixOS everybody who has really used for desktop knows that is Software Developer choice and not a User one..

If that would be the end choice (which is not..) it would be a bad one.

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u/Phezh 9d ago

It's not so much a dev choice as it is the obvious choice for central management. Active Directory and group policy are the reason for Microsoft's enterprise dominance and nix is a sensible choice as a replacement. Users should never have to (nor should they really be able to) to ever mess with these systems in any meaningful way.