1 year (and a few days) old article. How did this turn out?
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2025
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found this update from 1 month ago:
https://euro-stack.com/blog/2025/3/schleswig-holstein-open-source-digital-sovereignty
what the actual amount of progress is seems to be buried under bureaucracy-speak but I got 3 useful sentences out of it so far:
Configuration via group policies
MS Office can remain installed in parallel, until October 2025
Goals for october 2025: LibreOffice should be the sole standard office software on around 70% of the state administration's IT workstations
so to me it seems they're currently slowly doing a MS office -> LibreOffice transfer, but they're still all using windows (as the use of "group policy" implies)
Great, now Germany gets slapped with additional 10% tariffs, because of penguins.
Didn't they do this once before, like early 2000's?
That was the city of Munich. It was sold as a success in creating freedom and saving millions, but they still went back to Microsoft.
According to the Wikipedia article they changed their mind and decided to stay on LiMux.
I don't know where you're getting that. The German article says the city government said they'd keep LiMux, but despite that statement all PCs got Windows instead.
Schleswig-Holstein therefore follows the general strategy to move towards an open source driven administration. In fact, several federn institution already migrated to the openDesk administration bundle (https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/opendesk/). Great!
Let's hope they are successfull and let others migrate as well. The more migrate, the less likelier a failure is
Is this the year of the Linux desktop?
No.