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 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.

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W. Scott Lockwood III