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

[Bob Holtzman]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:20:13AM -0500, William Scott Lockwood III 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.

I do too. Don't have windows in any of my machines. Having said that,
there are some sites that haven't changed their code to accommodate
linux. 

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-- 
Bob Holtzman
Giant intergalactic brain-sucking hyperbacteria 
came to Earth to rape our women and create a race 
of mindless zombies.  Look!  It's working!
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