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I remember this being discussed a decade ago. The irony was that in most cases it was abandoned because migrating cost more than the annual IT budget. And since no politician ever plans a decade ahead, here we are.


Still, there are successful migrations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux


All good things come to an end:

"February 2017 - Politicians discuss proposals to replace the Linux-based OS used across the council with a Windows 10-based client.[42]"


Hopefully, it's far from the end. The fight continues [unfortunately only in German]:

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Muenchner-IT-Leiter-...

In short, there are no technical problems whatsoever. It's just a strong lobbying...




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