German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating
Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germany’s 16 states, on Wednesday confirmed plans to move tens of thousands of systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The announcement follows previously established plans to migrate the state government off Microsoft Office in favor of open source LibreOffice.
As spotted by The Document Foundation, the government has apparently finished its pilot run of LibreOffice and is now announcing plans to expand to more open source offerings.
In 2021, the state government announced plans to move 25,000 computers to LibreOffice by 2026. At the time, Schleswig-Holstein said it had already been testing LibreOffice for two years. As announced on Minister-President Daniel Gunther’s webpage this week, the state government confirmed that it's moving all systems to the Linux operating system (OS), too. The state government is offering a training program that it said it will update as necessary.
