dasrael comments on Canada could save millions by developing its own operating system instead of relying on Microsoft Windows

Because the Canadian government needs to make a simple solution as shitty as possible and hire hundreds of consultants to insure it will never work. They never got Phoenix Pay working.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 point 13 hours ago

I mean, I've seen a lot of noise by Canada and Europe about how they need to distance themselves from the United States, meanwhile if you look at the world's top visited websites, more than half of them are US based, from major search engines like Google to AI stuff like Gemini and ChatGPT to marketplaces like Amazon and eBay to social media like Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn to video media hosting like Netflix, Youtube and Twitch. Canada has one entry: Pornhub. EU countries have two: XVideos in France and XHamster in Cypress.

"Switching to our own operating system" means switching from an American corporation, to some American non-profit foundations. Trading Microsoft for GNU/Linux. Still running on Intel x86 architecture machines. Don't get me wrong, the attempt is adorable, but you're four decades behind in a four decade old discipline.

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[–] Jiral@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago*

Because you want a an OS optimised for the needs of public administration. It doesn't need to be a new Distro but it should be a tailored configusration, just lije thf Duch are doing right now based on NixOS.

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[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Which is exactly what they would do if they were to switch. Starting from scratch would be incredibly stupid, and there's no reasonable way to secure a brand new system when we simply don't employ enough programmers of that kind at the govt level.

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