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This OS isn't made by the EU, but it's goal is to become sponsored by them:
Personally I don't see why EU wouldn't just go with Suse. It has the corporate support that I guess these government institutions crave, it's a good system as far as I know and it's home-grown. Ubuntu is another option, Canonical is a British company (not EU anymore but it is European).
If we want to achieve adoption by the "main stream" consumer market we have to make sure that the Linux distro is absolutely idiot-proof. In the mind of many people, Linux is for IT-nerds and it's difficult to change a way of thinking. You'll have to prove it with: 1. Reliability (f.e. support of the EU); 2. Influencers who say that Linux is OK; 3. A Linux distro that is effectively proving that it can work idiot proof. Otherwise Linux is dead on arrival to become mainstream.
That makes sense. A reskin of an existing Distro with new funding would be a huge play.
Ubuntu is the most popular but they have a big proprietary push.
Ubuntu isn't a good choice, since Canonical is essentially the Microsoft of the Linux world. Suse makes sense, though. NixOS would be good, too, since you could scale your deployments.
NixOS is great, but has a steep learning curve which doesn't make it suitable for such a project imo
I think it makes great sense to use Nix (or better Guix). The users are not expected to do any configurations. They basically need a browser and maybe a text editor if it's the public sector.
Also, you can run Nix or Guix on basically any other dist. Which is very helpful for reproducible deployments.
Ubuntu doesn't make any sense. Better use Debian in that case. We don't need to give yet another eccentric South African billionaire more power.
Actually, what we probably want is something like openSUSE MicroOS with containers based on Nix or Guix.
Best would be if openSUSE simply adopted Nix/Guix for container configuration.