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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)
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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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[–] jayaura@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or how about the fact that 4k only works at 30fps over HDMI, but it works fine over DisplayPort or Thunderbolt3

Blame HDMI forum for that. They objected to AMD releasing open source driver for HDMI 2.0+ that lets you do higher modes like 4k60 or 5k etc due to patent reasons. DisplayPort folks on the other hand, had no objections. DP is quite a superior technology too, so if you could, use it instead of HDMI please.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think that's the reason. It works for other people.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It's literally the reason

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev -2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

So why does it work for other people with the same laptop and OS?

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

They're using a proprietary driver, not the open source one

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

BUT HOW COME THIS THING I DONT UNDERSTAND IS HAPPENING?