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  • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1211·
    5 months ago

    1 out of the 3 total norwegian changed the OS after creating a lemmy account.

  • Adda@lemmy.mlEnglish
    115·
    5 months ago

    I especially appreciate that the graph is designed as “Linux” and “Other” instead of “Windows”, maybe “MacOS” and “Other”.

  • Frostbeard@lemmy.world
    81·
    5 months ago

    Norwegian here. I quit reddit and joined Lemmy after the API debacle. Installed mint because of W11. (A big factor was how Steam and proton enables me to play games)

    Can’t say either Lemmy or Linux has gotten any media attention in the big news sources as far as I can see.

    I am the only one in my circle of friends that quit Reddit (most follow the various 40k reddits, and they have no replacement in federated options)

  • Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
    682·
    5 months ago

    They just started counting all my computers and virtual machines on which I run Arch and Nixos btw!

      • Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        5 months ago

        Thanks! As I have been learning to love the Nix way of doing things my only regret is missing the great documentation of Arch. Hopefully we can have the best of both worlds in the future!

  • TDCN@feddit.dk
    65·
    5 months ago

    As a Dane i can say that maybe its because Scandinavians are generally pretty tech savvy and good with digitalisation. Also Scandinavians has a low tolerance for bullshit.

    • vortexsurfer@lemmy.world
      801·
      5 months ago

      I’m a Norwegian Linux enthusiast and have never heard anything about the government using Ubuntu or Linux. Seems unlikely, from what I know. I know that within healthcare Windows is still widely used, even on the server side…

      On the other hand, a lot of software for official services is being developed as open source now, so that’s at least a good step in the right direction. Example: https://github.com/navikt

      • Techognito@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        5 months ago

        Norwegian government loves windows, so yea, I really doubt it. (by it, I mean the government using Ubuntu thing)

        Source: I used to work for the Norwegian government

        edit: added explanation to “it”, so not to be as confusing to what I refered to.

  • Troy@lemmy.ca
    532·
    5 months ago

    Linux on all their electric cars, and they’re watching porn while driving ;)

  • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
    494·
    5 months ago

    European governments will do this thing where they pass some law that says they have to take bids from local vendors for systems, olafs computer service will put in a bid with some free software system, the government will take them up on it, spend a bunch of money trying to integrate it into their existing systems with varying degrees of success then parlay abandoning it for their majority provider in exchange for avoiding cost increases or some free support/equipment.

    I think Germany’s done it twice now.

    • d_k_bo@feddit.org
      37·
      5 months ago

      I think Germany’s done it twice now.

      It was Munich and they switched back to Windows after M$ moved their German headquarters to Munich.

    • Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      5 months ago

      The EU requires government acquisitions to be publicly announced so that private companies can make offers that the government then must choose from (not freely, mind you, but following some “objective” metrics).

      Even though this might sound great to some, it has the downside of promoting commercial services and vendor lock-in up to the point that even if a free and open source alternative exists, it cannot be used unless there also exists some commercial entity behind it that can sell the software and support for it in accordance with the established metrics.

      This might be one of the biggest hurdles in the way for Linux adoption, since anyone can claim to do lots of great stuff with SUPERproprietarySOFTWARETM and then hold critical services, like healthcare mentioned elsewhere, hostage to their failure to deliver on promises and future bad support.

      • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
        3·
        5 months ago

        Even more important, a huge multinational like Microsoft can be forced in court to provide the support they sell under threat of legal action that would cripple their profitability in the region. Olafs computer service will just turn its pockets inside out, flip around the shingle to closed and leave the national drivers license agency in a lurch.

        On some level the companies that sell and support systems government relies on have to be treated as nation states themselves in order to maintain normalcy, which both parties “want”.

      • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        5 months ago

        I in general very much support requiring paying for support. I.e. SLAs with consequences for not meeting targets support.

        At least for software/hardware running things that can’t afford indefinite unauthorized access or downtime if left in a vulnerable state. (Some stuff actually can IMHO be like that).

        I also think governments should have justify renting software insteading buying it if the money is intended to be an investment of any kind.

  • hglman@lemmy.mlEnglish
    42·
    5 months ago

    ironically half my team at work is in Norway and they use windows. My team in the US uses linux.

  • Vincent@feddit.nl
    373·
    5 months ago

    One extra Norwegian user in Statcounter’s biased and unrepresentative dataset started to use Linux, probably.

    • Pasta Dental@sh.itjust.works
      26·
      5 months ago

      I don’t think it’s that biased and unrepresentative, as Pornhub’s usage statistics show about the same numbers for global Linux usage

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        18·
        5 months ago

        Pornhub is legitimately one of the best sites for internet statistics around. It’s very widely visited and they actually put out the numbers. (Although, sadly, in my state of Virginia, they comply with identification requirements, so I only visit it with my VPN active, which then fucks up the stats.)

  • Facebones@reddthat.com
    29·
    5 months ago

    Strong social nets that allow people breathing room to allow more interest in how their computers work?

  • llothar@lemmy.ml
    301·
    5 months ago

    Nothing is happening in Norway. Source: I live in Norway.

    I’ve met only a handful people that use Linux on their desktop, plus some developers that use it at work.

    • gerdesj@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      I run (one of three partners) a small IT company in the UK. I’ve always Linuxed since around 1998. After messing with RedHat, Mandrake, Yggdrasil and others I settled down and ran Gentoo for many years and then Arch for some more.

      I’m gradually dumping the Windows servers and replacing with Linux based beasties. We are also in the throws of replacing VMware with Proxmox.

      I also have a pretty decent Kbuntu based desktop/laptop effort. I’ve done Windows client deployments in the 1000s so I have quite a good idea about compliance etc. An Ubuntu based box can run several AV solutions, secure boot and full disc encryption. Buzz words perhaps but also audit points and will get you over the line for Cyber Essentials Plus (UK).

      Libre Office works for me and I used to teach office suites in the 90’s! Things have moved on since but a decimal alignment stop is a decimal alignment stop today too (do you know what that means?). I run our Exchange system, and I migrated it from GroupWise back in the day because the kool kids “required” it. Anyway, Evolution with EWS will get you full functionality for a client but with far less faff.

      I’m taking my time. I already have at least two employees who are dyed in the wool Windows officianados begging me to migrate them to Linux. I will but it takes time. For example - “drive mappings” or in English: Remote mounts.

      CID - https://cid-doc.github.io/ . This is an easy to add Windows compat thing. Its rather good. For static desktops its fine but for laptops that move around a lot it can be hard to get the file system mounts working again quickly in a dynamic environment.

      CID uses a PAM mount based system and in the past I used another one (autofs I think). However it seems to me that mounts are not dynamic or responsive enough. In the end it is Samba and that might need some fettling as well.

      As I said earlier, I’m taking my time (I’m an engineer) but be assured that Linux is quite capable of driving your desktop.