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

[Kenneth Marcy]

On 7/31/2014 10:58 AM, Doug wrote:
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> 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.

Yes, but from which software, running where, come the numbers that are 
filled into the forms?  The calculational acceptability bar is not met, 
even as preparational convenience is dismissed.

Gold plating a porcine lipstick applicator does not change its nature.


Ken