Continuing the discussion from EU chooses Fedora for their "EU OS":

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Continuing the discussion from EU chooses Fedora for their "EU OS":

You would have thought they’d have gone with SuSE, tbh.

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One thing I didn’t see in the earlier discussion…

The GitLab mentions ‘atomic distro’, so combining that with KDE Plasma makes me think it’ll be based on Fedora Kinoite.

For public employees, I can see why Plasma would be a much better choice than GNOME. I would’ve thought something like Cinnamon would’ve been simpler/better for public employees, due to the complexity of Plasma, but there’s no Fedora Atomic using the Cinnamon desktop.

(I know some experienced Linux users don’t consider Plasma complicated, but we’re talking here about users who will have never seen Linux before)

There are atomics for Budgie and a few others, but I think they need something well-supported and frequently updated, so Plasma makes sense due to the support behind it.

I can especially see why atomic would make sense: to protect the install from employees who might find sudo scripts online and try to paste them into the terminal. It’s for the best if those workers don’t have sudo rights.

It’s interesting that some EU-based distro isn’t being used. Apart from the obvious SUSE in Germany, there’s also Mint and Zorin in Ireland, and there are probably other EU-based distros I’m not familiar with.

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Unless Plasma has Session Restore under Wayland, I’m not sure how anyone could consider it in a business.

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Plasma is meant to be implementing ‘true’ session restore (as opposed to what they are admitting is currently ‘fake’ session restore) in an upcoming Plasma 6 update.

I think EU OS will take some time, so it’s reasonable to think true session restore will be in place by the time EU OS makes headway.

The reason I say it will take some time, is because I worked in the public sector before and know how slow and bureaucratic it can be. It can take years to implement any kind of new technology, so in all likelihood EU OS will need some time before it’ll be used by public institutions. There’s bound to be multiple updates in the meantime.