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A petition has been created by an Austrian EU rep. to replace Windows with GNU/Linux in all Europe (www.europarl.europa.eu)

submitted 19 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The petition is open to all EU resident. The goal is to replace all Windows in all public institution in Europe with a sovereign GNU/Linux.

If the petition is successful it would be a huge step forward for GNU/Linux adoption.

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[–] ayyy 1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Is there a Linux distro that actually gets the same battery life on laptops yet? I don’t mean “pretty good” battery life, I mean “as good or better than Windows” battery life.

[–] Atomic 1 points 8 hours ago

Pretty much all of them?

I had an old surface Pro 4 (with only 4gb ram!?) And it ran so bad on windows.

I put Debian on it, a bit of tinkering and knowhow required but everything works, touch and all. And it runs so much smoother. And battery does last longer

[–] AngryPancake 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Literally any distro. Windows runs so much shit in the background, it just tanks the battery.

[–] divingdonkey 2 points 9 hours ago

Totally agree that Linux runs soooo much lighter, but Windows still has way more aggressive cpu frequency downscaling. All my laptops from the last runs turboed longer and more often than under Windows. This can be improved with scripts, but is not user friendly.