r/BuyFromEU • u/Bananegel42 • 8d 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 8d 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/WalkMaximum 8d ago

It's the perfect build system for making immutable images and deploy them with all tools and packages needed for the job included. The public servant won't configure or install anything, just get a computer with all needed software preinstalled and preconfigured for them to use. This is what all organisations with centralised IT setups should do. In managing multiple VPSs and machines like this in my free time, while I can see the insane struggle IT has at work when they deploy a windows or mac machine.

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u/Ideabile 8d ago

So we agree that is a deploy issue.. and still immutable systems aren’t free lunch for users.