--- title: EU keeps moving to Open Source, New Linux smartphone,... description: France and Germany continue major migrations to open-source software, with French ministries moving hundreds of thousands of users to Nextcloud and Germany's... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/eu-keeps-moving-to-open-source-new-linux-smartphone-kde-fundraising---linux-weekly-news-xtcfgrdsw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: EU keeps moving to Open Source, New Linux smartphone, KDE fundraising - Linux Weekly news | daily.dev og:description: France and Germany continue major migrations to open-source software, with French ministries moving hundreds of thousands of users to Nextcloud and Germany's... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/eu-keeps-moving-to-open-source-new-linux-smartphone-kde-fundraising---linux-weekly-news-xtcfgrdsw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XtcfGRDsw.png og:image:alt: EU keeps moving to Open Source, New Linux smartphone, KDE fundraising - Linux Weekly news og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # EU keeps moving to Open Source, New Linux smartphone, KDE fundraising - Linux Weekly news **[The Linux Experiment](https://daily.dev/sources/linuxexp)** · 26 min read · 91 upvotes · 6 comments ## Summary France and Germany continue major migrations to open-source software, with French ministries moving hundreds of thousands of users to Nextcloud and Germany's Schleswig-Holstein saving €15 million annually by switching to LibreOffice. System76 released Cosmic desktop and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS as a stable first version. KDE's fundraising exceeded €280,000, nearly doubling last year's total. A new Linux smartphone running Sailfish OS with Android app support reached crowdfunding goals. Critical infrastructure concerns emerged as libxml2 became unmaintained, and HDMI Forum continues blocking HDMI 2.1 support in open-source AMD drivers. D7VK 1.0 brings DirectX 7 translation to Vulkan for legacy gaming on Linux. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@hunordori** · 5 upvotes > I am curious about the user experience. Nowadays we use a lot of web based services and some of the office apps looks super similar. But every time I try to introduce a change, there is a lot of resistance. Kinda make sense to reinvest in user education. **@byteasf** · 1 upvotes > finally they realize libreoffice is better **@srmdn** · 1 upvotes > Great move **@deentap** · 0 upvotes > Great News **@kizotti** · 0 upvotes > Very interesting topics! ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [FOSS Weekly \#26.16: Kernel 7.0, Essential Terminal Tips, France Linux Move, New Age Verification Bill and More](https://daily.dev/posts/foss-weekly-26-16-kernel-7-0-essential-terminal-tips-france-linux-move-new-age-verification-bil-mfduuvp1x) · It's Foss · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#gaming](https://daily.dev/tags/gaming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/eu-keeps-moving-to-open-source-new-linux-smartphone-kde-fundraising---linux-weekly-news-xtcfgrdsw) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"EU keeps moving to Open Source, New Linux smartphone, KDE fundraising - Linux Weekly news","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/eu-keeps-moving-to-open-source-new-linux-smartphone-kde-fundraising---linux-weekly-news-xtcfgrdsw","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/eu-keeps-moving-to-open-source-new-linux-smartphone-kde-fundraising---linux-weekly-news-xtcfgrdsw"},"datePublished":"2025-12-13T11:25:13.436Z","dateModified":"2025-12-13T11:25:37.805Z","description":"France and Germany continue major migrations to open-source software, with French ministries moving hundreds of thousands of users to Nextcloud and Germany's...","image":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6gusWDr1Qw0/sddefault.jpg","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6gusWDr1Qw0/sddefault.jpg","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Linux Experiment","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Linux Experiment","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--tvuv-fY0--/f_auto/v1728807168/logos/linuxexp","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/linuxexp"},"commentCount":6,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/eu-keeps-moving-to-open-source-new-linux-smartphone-kde-fundraising---linux-weekly-news-xtcfgrdsw","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":91},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":6}],"keywords":"open-source,linux,gaming","timeRequired":"PT26M","video":{"@type":"VideoObject","name":"EU keeps moving to Open Source, New Linux smartphone, KDE fundraising - Linux Weekly news","description":"France and Germany continue major migrations to open-source software, with French ministries moving hundreds of thousands of users to Nextcloud and Germany's...","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6gusWDr1Qw0/sddefault.jpg","uploadDate":"2025-12-13T11:25:13.436Z","duration":"PT26M","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/XtcfGRDsw","embedUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/embed/6gusWDr1Qw0"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Linux Experiment","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/linuxexp"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"EU keeps moving to Open Source, New Linux smartphone, KDE fundraising - Linux Weekly news"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/eu-keeps-moving-to-open-source-new-linux-smartphone-kde-fundraising---linux-weekly-news-xtcfgrdsw","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"I am curious about the user experience. Nowadays we use a lot of web based services and some of the office apps looks super similar. But every time I try to introduce a change, there is a lot of resistance. Kinda make sense to reinvest in user education.","datePublished":"2025-12-29T11:03:40.348Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/XtcfGRDsw#c-m9sPQ2xIp","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Hunor Dóri","url":"https://daily.dev/hunordori","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--ej_ecZnp--/f_auto/v1766332232/avatars/avatar_WGxMVU157d1bEq6RnCTIe?_a=BAMAK+ZW0"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":5}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"finally they realize libreoffice is better","datePublished":"2026-01-26T20:10:41.396Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/XtcfGRDsw#c-m0W3pYJUr","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Byte","url":"https://daily.dev/byteasf","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--RHMRp4k5--/f_auto/v1773691867/avatars/avatar_nqWh5zTi61niz2RzGYb0I?_a=BAMAMiiu0"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Great move","datePublished":"2025-12-29T11:49:20.997Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/XtcfGRDsw#c-BNmSX4vFt","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"srmdn","url":"https://daily.dev/srmdn","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--sgM5PGvW--/f_auto/v1750635589/avatars/avatar_tfllEwSHlmvILiLAujyGu?_a=BAMClqZW0"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Great News","datePublished":"2026-01-02T21:52:38.580Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/XtcfGRDsw#c-Z1rSDaWuz","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Dennis E. 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