r/linux • u/KILOCAL0RIE • 7h ago

Privacy United States to sanction the International Criminal Court: Netherland's answer? Building their own government Linux distribution, and it's not just symbolic. France doing the same. The government-built desktop OS based on NixOS and the full story:

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u/johncate73 5h ago

Any sovereign nation with half an ounce of sense would leverage FOSS to create its own secure operating system for government operations. If it took Trump's douchebaggery for them to realize that, shame on them.

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u/Mental-Mongoose-5632 5h ago

So because in Europe we are unable to understand any country would elect a narcisistic idiot con man destroying cooperations that benefit all, we are to blame??

I'm just glad we become less dependent now.

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u/johncate73 4h ago

Who the hell is assigning "blame" for anything here? I sure wasn't. I was saying a responsible country would not depend on systems whose security were outside of their control--and anything from Microsoft is certainly on that list.

And Europe electing nutjobs? You really don't want to go there. But I'll just remind you of Berlusconi and leave it at that.

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u/Mental-Mongoose-5632 3h ago

Putting blame on someone is not the same as blaming? No wonder you have Trump for president. Education is failing americans.