inari@piefed.zip to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-220 hours agoAfter Europe ditched Windows, China follows suit with its own home-grown Linux distroswww.xda-developers.comexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1266
arrow-up1266external-linkAfter Europe ditched Windows, China follows suit with its own home-grown Linux distroswww.xda-developers.cominari@piefed.zip to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-220 hours agomessage-square53fedilink
minus-squarenaught101@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·20 hours agoFucking wild to me that China is still so windows-dominated.
minus-squareViatorOmnium@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·20 hours agoWindows is very cheap if you don’t pay for it, and all the backdoors are a feature for the powers that be.
minus-squaresteelplatedmech@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·17 hours agoSurely China can’t be fine with the US poking around their government computers? Or are they? I don’t understand how another country can use another hostile country’s closed operating system for sensitive material.
minus-squaremorto@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 hours agoFOSS in general took a very long time to be embraced by china, which feels weird
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoThey are the same way the U.S. government is. Windows isn’t used for shit that’s actually important in either government.
minus-squareKssioAug@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·16 hours agoI would guess that Microsoft has to comply to Chinese privacy and data laws, AND that China’s firewall also might block a lot of the telemetry. I agree nonetheless. They should be using Linux a long time ago.
minus-squareFukOui@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 hours agoHonestly I thought Kylin would’ve been the default OS/ SOP in government computers
Fucking wild to me that China is still so windows-dominated.
Windows is very cheap if you don’t pay for it, and all the backdoors are a feature for the powers that be.
Surely China can’t be fine with the US poking around their government computers? Or are they?
I don’t understand how another country can use another hostile country’s closed operating system for sensitive material.
FOSS in general took a very long time to be embraced by china, which feels weird
They are the same way the U.S. government is. Windows isn’t used for shit that’s actually important in either government.
I would guess that Microsoft has to comply to Chinese privacy and data laws, AND that China’s firewall also might block a lot of the telemetry.
I agree nonetheless. They should be using Linux a long time ago.
Honestly I thought Kylin would’ve been the default OS/ SOP in government computers