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
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Thu Jul 31 17:54:28 UTC 2014
At Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:19:02 +0100 dave at thefletchers.net, "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 16:16 +0000, user1 wrote:
> > What you really say here is that you ARE forced to buy windows? whatever
> > way you obtain -or use windows
>
> Nobody is forcing me to use windows. When I eventually figured out how
> to get the Brother updater to work, there was no update available
> anyway.
>
> It is bloody annoying though when companies do this - publish printer
> drivers for Linux then have some other function only work with windows.
> It is completely unnecessary too. For instance the firmware update for
> my Cisco/Linksys router works through the administration web interface,
> so it doesn't give a damn what OS I'm using. There's probably no reason
> Brother could not do this.
>
> The other bad example that comes to mind is the Toshiba net book I
> bought a couple of years back. It's a lovely little computer but AFAICT
> the damn thing can't be BIOS updated without having a copy of bloody
> windows installed. There's absolutely no excuse for this crap - this
> desktop computer I'm using now is years older then the net book yet all
> I needed to do was plug in a memory stick with the BIOS update file
> copied onto it, boot into the BIOS settings, press a button and it did
> everything for itself. That's the way it should work on all computers.
>
> What I tried a few years ago, was ask one of the mailing lists if maybe
> anybody interested could contact Meade, saying they would really like to
> buy a telescope but were prevented from doing so by dependence on
> windows. I got no response.
>
> Even if manufacturers do want to have their own software to do updates,
> there's no reason they can't use a cross platform GUI tool kit to write
> it, and just supply it at very little cost to themselves for windows,
> Mac, Linux, and anything else that happens to be around. Is wxWidgets
> still around? I heard that's what Audacity for example is written in,
> and that's got to be way more complex than a firmware update program.
I write cross-platform GUIs in Tcl/Tk. And cross-build the mess-windows
shared libraries (.DLLs) on my Linux machine. (The shared libraries contain
the C/C++ code needed.)
>
> Dave
>
>
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