It really wouldn’t change anything in the long run. Any company that creates a browser is gonna need some form of income and people aren’t willing to pay for a browser. What would be their incentive to continue to work on the browser when they aren’t being paid?

bless the drive with a boot loader that doesn’t suck, like Grub

Ah yes, I need a whole separate OS just to boot my actual OS…

I would in no world call GRUB a bootloader that doesn’t suck.

1. SUSE is an in germany founded company (now in Luxembourg)
2. https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/
3. Not having a government directly develop a “blessed OS” is probably for the better

The EU already has one for anyone interested https://social.network.europa.eu