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

[Doug]

On 07/31/2014 12:32 PM, Kenneth Marcy wrote:
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> On 7/31/2014 8:31 AM, user1 wrote:
>> Are you forced to buy windows in order to solve certain tasks on the
>> internet e.g. like certain bank tasks and to update garmin gps maps etc
>
> National and state tax return preparation on your own computer using 
> Linux continues to be a challenge not only in the USA but in other 
> countries as well.
>
> An interesting question is whether the appropriate governmental 
> entities should provide timely appropriate software for personal tax 
> return preparation.  Whether that software should be created by the 
> government entity itself, or under contract with a private 
> organization, whether or not commercial, is an adjunct question.
>
>
> Ken
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>
If your distro provides Adobe, you should be able to fill out the forms 
from Linux.  I know that Adobe has abandoned Linux, altho I hear you can 
still run it from Chrome
or Chromium. I refuse to even look at either of those: I don't need 
Google under my sc=kin the rest of my computing life!

--doug