It’s a shame that so much taxpayer money is flowing to US multinationals.
To save money, the solution IS NOT austerity
https://psacunion.ca/psac-statement-upcoming-federal-austerity-budget
To save money, get rid of waste.
Every province, every government department, should get rid of Microsoft and Adobe.
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Tried which as a desktop? FreeBSD is mainly used for servers. I think OpenBSD gets used a lot more for daily driving on laptops (by the dev team for instance) and so may be more polished.
I tried OpenBSD with GNOME (because I am a Debian + GNOME guy). I suspect a lot of the shortcomings I ran into were GNOME related because, well you know.