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We view President Trump's proposed "reciprocal” trade policy as a step in the wrong direction.
The EU will react firmly and immediately against unjustified barriers to free and fair trade.
We will always protect European businesses, workers, and consumers from unjustified tariff measures.
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@EUCommission Hear, hear. But #eu is complety independent on big tech. Support eu alternative for #microsoft #Windows11
@muzicofiel So, user-friendly Linux with a Windows-like experience (preloaded with Wine and some GUI tool for Wine & Winetricks). I'd be totally for that.
Heck, make a 'government' version of that which can be used by government/state-owned or affiliated departments and branches, because country governments are already spending way too much on Windows licenses - so much so that at least in Romania, there's an entire monopoly over this with one company that receives state contracts that delivers these licenses at a whopping markup that would make other scalpers cry.
@alextecplayz
Oh yes, that would be awesome. We have contributed to increasing the wealth of American oligarchs. Let's slowly start closing the taps of these huge corporations that profit from the globalization that Trump is antagonizing.
@magellano @alextecplayz @muzicofiel
The nice thing is that parts of europe are doing so - the often named sovereign tech fund would be such an example.
It would make a lot of sense in my opinion to organize more such funds to pour them into various parts of the linux Desktop tech-stack in order to get to the kind of OS easily usable by anyone, including those with accessibility issues, for all usecases.
@Isofruit
But do you really think there is such a big differenze in usability of linux desktop? I would argue that Win11 less usable than Plasma desktop.
I think the real issue is that the world let Microsoft build a monopoly that is difficult to take down not because of the OS itself but because of everythink that rotates around it.
@alextecplayz @muzicofiel
@magellano @alextecplayz @muzicofiel I *think* you are correct for the more common everyday usecases.
But I think it's the more complex stuff where things fall apart. Convenient and simple integrations with optional services, better testing processes, fewer edgecases that can leave your system borked (Okay, I'm on arch now, I don't count anymore, but I remember the occasional Ubuntu upgrade also borking on me).
