I’m sure their EU lobbyists can fix that.
These politicians may not like the US anymore, but everyone likes money.These idiots forgot that an “america first everyone else last” president might alienate a pretty big part of their customer base, i.e. the rest of the world
It’s not even America first. It’s Trump and maybe the .00001% first and fuck everyone else.
Sucks that EU privacy protections only apply to corporations, and the governments are going for full government backdoors in everything possible.
Microsoft is an American company. America is broken and corrupt. No country can trust America anymore.
I’m SO happy I chose to switch to Linux as my daily driver.
Excellent, they should. Europe has many services that are already on par with American alternatives (certainly when it comes to Microsoft’s services), many are cheaper or even free, and actually respect our data.
We also have SUSE and OpenSUSE from Germany that work as very serviceable alternatives to Windows. I hope this wake up call that has been the US’s betrayal of all past allies leads EU tech to capitalize on it.
SUSE? non-linux OS?
It is Linux! Honestly mentioning SUSE was a mistake since most people aren’t gonna use that. That would be for enterprises or government.
OpenSUSE, particularly openSUSE Aeon is the one I would use if I wasn’t too knowledgeable about Linux. It just works out of the box, and it’s an atomic distro so a lot of the guides out there for other atomic distros apply to Aeon.
Also zypper is a fantastic package manager.
Good.
Under Trump 2.0, some Europeans fear that storing their data in the bit barns of Microsoft, Google and AWS is no longer safe
It never was, and all the laws that were installed to make this appear legal were nothing but meaningless fig leaves.
It’s like people still don’t know about Schrems II or the Cloud Act.
Or they somehow seriously think that the EU-US Data Privacy Framework resolves the issues that killed the EU–US Privacy Shield?
Steam Deck got me into Linux, I want to eventually have Steam OS installed on my PC, I’d happily ditch Windows
www.protondb.com to check your Steam library against Proton (Linux) compatibility. You can log in with your Steam account and it’ll give all your games a compatibility rating.
If you want Steam OS on your PC today, Bazzite is ready today. But pretty much every popular distro will give a similar gaming experience once configured, so don’t be afraid to branch out a bit.
The hardware is still American right
I’d rather give Steam my money over Microsoft
Same but I thought the post was about US tech vs EU
Fuck Microsoft
Microsoft promising to build infrastructure in the EU directly hurts American jobs. :-D lol Trumps Tarrifs that scared the world have responded by defending themselves, US companies boosting their economies by building there and then the US jobs will be needed less as the work they’re doing now witll be in the EU.
Trumps Tarrifs have directly boosted the economies of others while directly hurting ours and it has absolutely nothing to do with the tangible goods that Trump cares about.
Someone should tell Trump that Microsoft is out sourcing cloud business which is worth BILLIONS.
Amazon too, tell him Jeff Bezos is the biggest cloud seller on earth. Elon would jump at the chance to deal with his, uh, rival?
Trump probably thinks that’s woke libs creating clouds in the sky to fight climate change.
Just checked it’s worth almost $800 BILLION.
Thinking that needing to build infrastructure that other countries provided is an economic boost is exactly the line of thought that the Magats use to justify Tariffs. It’s not true. The resources spent building server rooms and datacenters would be better used elsewhere.
Good. That’s the point.
Step 1. Fuck Around
Step 2. Find Out
They say they’ll fight thing in court as if we trust the courts to even respect the constitution anymore. You sat behind the clown on inauguration day, now reap what you sowed.
are you sure that Microsoft was there with Amazon, Google, Fecesbook and Xhitter?
anyone remember the time the city of Munich was fully running on “Limux” until the bavarian greed kicked in and they switched back to Microsoft for 8000 jobs Bill promised them? I am sure the greed will kick in again. People are shit.
I remember. I think I was still on Slashdot back then – that’s how long ago it was.
How was switching to MS supposed to create jobs? Genuine question.
Microsoft built their HQ in Munich as part of the “deal” as far as I remember. Something along those lines. The secret ingredient is corruption.
