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As an American. I 100% approve the move and we should all do
the same. Thank you El :)

https://www.qwant.com/?l=en (no tracking of data)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcQy1zaflbw

Didn't one/some of the European countries move from Windows to Linux

(or was it from MSOffice to OpenOffice/something) some years ago??

Yes, I remember it well. But the European computer users started
crying about having to use the Linux systems, so the company CEOs
tucked tail and ran back to the Windows.
I love the thought of Gates crying himself to sleep every ight for his
own stupidity. This immature little twat rich boy and Microsoft's
exceedingly arrogant CEO have destroyed their company. Their desire to enslave everyone to their own control was the height of hubris. I say
death to Windows.

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Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

On 6/06/2026 8:44 am, Anonymous wrote:

As an American. I 100% approve the move and we should all do
the same. Thank you El :)

https://www.qwant.com/?l=en (no tracking of data)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcQy1zaflbw

Didn't one/some of the European countries move from Windows to Linux (or
was it from MSOffice to OpenOffice/something) some years ago??

Yes. Most famously it was the city of Munich for both linux and openoffice.
It had ping ponged over the years - MS gave them a very good deal at one
point - and are back with OSS currently, I believe. I think German law -
for all government documents much be stored in open standards - was also
the driver for microsoft to rush through the so-called open OOXML format.

There are others, but Munich is the one that shows how challenging it is to make such a significant shift.

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Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> wrote:

T wrote:

On 6/7/26 5:39 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

In my country, ... And accounting software in Linux does exist, but it
is peculiar to the regulations of each country.

In the USA, Intuit's QuickBooks is the standard.  The desktop
version only runs on Windows.  There was a Mac version at one
time, but it was so horrible (bugs) that I had to tell customers
they had to get a Windows machine.  Intuit is trying to push
users to their cloud version.  The bookkeepers I work with
do not care at all for the cloud version.

[snip]

Here in the UK probably the most used accounting software is Sage. More horrible than QB and so far as I know equally restricted to Windows platforms.

Like everything these days, Sage has moved to cloud.

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On 6/15/26 6:49 PM, Fritz Wuehler wrote:

As an American. I 100% approve the move and we should all do
the same. Thank you El :)

https://www.qwant.com/?l=en (no tracking of data)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcQy1zaflbw

Didn't one/some of the European countries move from Windows to Linux

(or was it from MSOffice to OpenOffice/something) some years ago??

Yes, I remember it well. But the European computer users started
crying about having to use the Linux systems, so the company CEOs
tucked tail and ran back to the Windows.
I love the thought of Gates crying himself to sleep every ight for his
own stupidity. This immature little twat rich boy and Microsoft's
exceedingly arrogant CEO have destroyed their company. Their desire to enslave everyone to their own control was the height of hubris. I say
death to Windows.

If we had started teaching some linux in grade school twenty years ago humanity would have produced a dozen IT-genius youngsters by now, none
of them offsprings of the 'let's enslave humanity for ourselves' _culture_.
--
"Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in
foreign policy." Kissinger.

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bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

On 6/15/26 6:49 PM, Fritz Wuehler wrote:

As an American. I 100% approve the move and we should all do
the same. Thank you El :)

https://www.qwant.com/?l=en (no tracking of data)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcQy1zaflbw

Didn't one/some of the European countries move from Windows to Linux

(or was it from MSOffice to OpenOffice/something) some years ago??

Yes, I remember it well. But the European computer users started
crying about having to use the Linux systems, so the company CEOs
tucked tail and ran back to the Windows.
I love the thought of Gates crying himself to sleep every ight for his
own stupidity. This immature little twat rich boy and Microsoft's
exceedingly arrogant CEO have destroyed their company. Their desire to
enslave everyone to their own control was the height of hubris. I say
death to Windows.

If we had started teaching some linux in grade school twenty years ago humanity would have produced a dozen IT-genius youngsters by now, none
of them offsprings of the 'let's enslave humanity for ourselves' _culture_.

Except business would have complained to government that schools weren't preparing students for real employment.

That's why IT classes are more about ppt presentations and document
formatting than writing a script.

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