Are you forced to buy windows in order to solve certain tasks on the internet e.g. like certain banktasks and to update garmin gps maps and other

[Mike Barnard]

On 31 July 2014 19:20, William Scott Lockwood III <scott at guppylog.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:11 AM, user1 <bqz69 at telia.com> wrote:
> > Okay.
> > My questions was more generally when you are not an ubuntu expert
> > When you have windows you can solve windows tasks easy.
> > What I mean is there are lots of tasks made only for windows and mac,
> > seems like several companies do not bother to make tasks suitable for
> > linux as it probably costs too much to make and maintain and there are
> > too few linux users in the world?
> > As I see it Windows thus force people to buy windows even if they are
> > only using linux (but secretly the backdoor way)?
>
>
> My opinion is no. I do everything on Linux, including playing windows
> games. And Open or Libre Office handles common file formats like .docx
> just fine.
>
>
Really? I find docx with any tables or images or diagrams heavily distorted
when opened in [Open,Libre]Office. And pptx is worse of them all. Font size
changes across multiple slides, over flowing text, background sporadically
applied across different slides... Looks like to work with certain M$
office files, you need M$ office :-(



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