https://news.itsfoss.com/indian-govt-linux-windows/
Indian govt offices to use Linux distribution replacing Microsoft Windows.
More and more governments need to ditch Microsoft Windows. Government has a responsibility to use the funds it has as responsibly as possible. This means not feeding beaucoup dollars to Microsoft. Both the daily support costs and licensing of Microsoft products vastly outweigh open source. As a senior desktop support engineer I see it all of the time. Some could think of it as job security but I think of it as a waste of resources that could be allocated in other areas.
Having dealt with this: There are actually very strong arguments for MS being the responsible decision.
For all its MANY flaws if you are doing anything more complex than "browsing the internet", it is "stable" with a 206.2 billion USD company focused on making it work(-ish) for what governments actually need: A locked down environment where employees run 1-10 apps.
And with it being the industry/consumer standard: Your staff likely know enough that they can debug trivial problems (yeah... about that). But, more importantly, smaller orgs (county office, for example) can just rely on the service contract with whatever prebuilt vendor they went with. Paying for priority access to a call center is a lot cheaper than paying to keep Moss and Roy in the basement. And, for the on site IT, you have a much larger applicant pool.
Linux's main advantages are
Some governments make the transition (I think a few german states use linux?). But the vast majority end up rolling back because the benefits actually aren't there at their scale and use case.
That said, I am REALLY interested what happens in ten or so years when the majority of new hires are used to working with cloud software and the like.
Seriously, this is a pretty common misconception. As a consumer, Linux is awesome and a lot cheaper. But for a company (especially one with expectations and oversights like a government org), you aren't really saving much money. Windows licenses are fairly cheap. The real cost is the support contract and overhead. And you are almost definitely getting that contract from the folk who sell you computers and possibly also keeping staff on site. Which are a LOT more expensive than the windows license you may or may not need. Which further gets negated because you are now in the realm where getting RHEL over Rocky matters (... assuming Rocky exists in a few months) or Ubuntu Pro over free (which, admittedly, is more about the online support and patching tools).
Not to worry will switch back to Windows as soon as Microsoft pays up the percentage to politicians.
This change is driven more by defense personnel than it is by corrupt politician. I am less hopeful for parliament and other govt services switching.