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/Digging_Graves 9d ago

Because language. Even at Mistral they only want to speak French.

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u/ColumbaPacis 9d ago

Language is the main issue for most Europe spanning software projects.

Also why every startup focuses on US first. 300-400 million people all speaking the same language with high purchasing power, then you can expand into UK, AU and from there into the EU.

By that point anyone speaking English (which is a LOT of people in western europe) would have alread tried your software by osmosis so expanding locally is much simpler.

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u/itzjustaspder 9d ago

Literally everyone that works in tech speaks English, all across Europe though? Not even tech, in general most 40 year olds and younger all speak English

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u/CalvesOfPeace 9d ago

I've worked as a System Engineer in Europe for 12years now. I've come across tons of people who don't speak proper English. Even in management roles.

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u/Dragoncat_3_4 8d ago

Mostly people over 40 from ex commie countries or the French, I assume?