<![CDATA[This is blowing my mind: The Dutch government decided to start switching from Windows to NixOS because it doesn't have a company behind it, increasing their sovereignty.]]>This is blowing my mind: The Dutch government decided to start switching from Windows to NixOS because it doesn't have a company behind it, increasing their sovereignty. They've ruled out OpenSUSE and Fedora _because_ of their commercial ties (SUSE and IBM/Red Hat).

https://itsfoss.com/news/netherlands-dawo-initiative/

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/410ac21d-71e4-4742-b39a-6b22c91b7ba5/this-is-blowing-my-mind-the-dutch-government-decided-to-start-switching-from-windows-to-nixos-because-it-doesn-t-have-a-company-behind-it-increasing-their-sovereignty.RSS for NodeSun, 01 Nov 2026 06:43:32 GMTTue, 29 Sep 2026 13:47:51 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to This is blowing my mind: The Dutch government decided to start switching from Windows to NixOS because it doesn't have a company behind it, increasing their sovereignty. on Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:41:38 GMT]]>@gerrit this is funny if you follow the nix(os) community and the amount of drama there has been around the leadership of the project. I'm explicitly thinking about switching away from it because of this

I guess it doesn't matter for a government, considering the leadership is mostly dutch based]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://is.badat.dev/objects/cc150edb-2bdc-42ae-a3d0-6306a6c54ffahttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://is.badat.dev/objects/cc150edb-2bdc-42ae-a3d0-6306a6c54ffaTue, 06 Oct 2026 10:41:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is blowing my mind: The Dutch government decided to start switching from Windows to NixOS because it doesn't have a company behind it, increasing their sovereignty. on Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:37:16 GMT]]>@gerrit and I think the main nixos guy is Dutch, as well, which just adds more good feelings, I'd suppose; or doesn't really hurt.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fairy.id/ap/users/117146196519499875/statuses/117384795667837452https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fairy.id/ap/users/117146196519499875/statuses/117384795667837452Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:37:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is blowing my mind: The Dutch government decided to start switching from Windows to NixOS because it doesn't have a company behind it, increasing their sovereignty. on Sun, 04 Oct 2026 20:23:39 GMT]]>@gerrit How long until they all figure a (supra)government agency doing dedicated in-house coding might be the best path. Maybe call it EUnix?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/faduda/statuses/117384506214094707https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/faduda/statuses/117384506214094707Sun, 04 Oct 2026 20:23:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is blowing my mind: The Dutch government decided to start switching from Windows to NixOS because it doesn't have a company behind it, increasing their sovereignty. on Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:14:28 GMT]]>@bert_hubert yeah, "start" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. I'm under no illusion that MS lobbyists will do their best to kill off this experiment, but I found it fascinating that they specifically did not want a company behind the open source project. Usually governments wouldn't touch a project without a big company backing it.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/ap/users/117274625957118457/statuses/117383054526660710https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/ap/users/117274625957118457/statuses/117383054526660710Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:14:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is blowing my mind: The Dutch government decided to start switching from Windows to NixOS because it doesn't have a company behind it, increasing their sovereignty. on Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:49:48 GMT]]>@bert_hubert @gerrit the source is tweakers.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Feral_3D/statuses/117382957550225058https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Feral_3D/statuses/117382957550225058Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:49:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is blowing my mind: The Dutch government decided to start switching from Windows to NixOS because it doesn't have a company behind it, increasing their sovereignty. on Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:43:30 GMT]]>@gerrit They have decided no such thing, sadly. This is small and unfunded experiment.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://eupolicy.social/users/bert_hubert/statuses/117382696841702508https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://eupolicy.social/users/bert_hubert/statuses/117382696841702508Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:43:30 GMT