Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

	Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS(dawo.community)
	995 points by fjfaase 19 days ago \| 575 comments
	tl;dr: The Dutch government is developing DAWO, a NixOS-based alternative to Microsoft aimed at strengthening national digital autonomy. The initiative focuses on five goals: digital sovereignty, inter-government collaboration, security and data protection, innovation, and verifiability of public IT systems.
	HN Discussion: ↑Moving away from abusive US big tech like Microsoft is welcome and overdue ↑Other European governments (France, Germany) are pursuing similar initiatives, validating the trend ↑US authoritarianism is eroding trust and driving allies away from American tech ↓Replacing Microsoft Office with LibreOffice/Collabora will be the hardest hurdle and may doom the project ↑NixOS is technically well-suited for this use case, especially with LLMs lowering the learning curve