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

[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Aug 7, 2014 2:07 AM, "Mike Barnard" <mike.barnardq at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 31 July 2014 19:20, William Scott Lockwood III <scott at guppylog.com>
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>> 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)?
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>> My opinion is no. I do everything on Linux, including playing windows
>> games. And Open or Libre Office handles common file formats like .docx
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> 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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Perhaps it would be more accurate to say you need it. I and many others do
not. I have zero use for power point, but there is a viewer for those. The
viewer used to be free, so you might look at that. As to the issues you
have with .docx files, I haven't had this problem, so I can't really
comment on it. As to issues with fonts, that usually happens when you dont
have the right fonts installed.
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