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

[Peter Smout]

On 14/09/14 15:03, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 14 September 2014 15:46, user1 <bqz69 at telia.com> wrote:
>> My conclusion is that in order to solve ALL tasks -and to use ALL
>> websites on the internet you are FORCED to always have windows installed
>> or to have an extra computer running windows.
>>
>> Certain websites e.g. some online banking websites and other websites are
>> not to be used by linux only users?
>>
>> I would like to hear a proper statement about above from some of the
>> really clever internet experts.
>>
>> If above is correct, then all sites with linux installation instructions
>> ALWAYS should inform, so new linux users will know?
>>
>> THANKS?
>
>
> No, not really.
>
> I do everything I want in Linux. Before that I used to do it on a Mac.
> (Well, a Hackintosh, actually.)
>
> But that does sometimes mean not buying products or services that only
> work with Windows. But it's a free world, you can do that if you want.
>
>

+1, If a company is offering a service I cannot access I DO NOT pay for 
it and they loose x1 customer, if we all took this approach and told the 
companies why we do so, then perhaps in the not-too-distant-future it 
would not be necessary ;)

Anyway I have found myself using this argument far lees often recently 
so perhaps, just perhaps Android & Goggle Chrome-books are having more 
of an impact than me (and 1 or 2 others) moaning occasionally.

Let us all hope this trend continues and even my company catches up and 
moves into the world where even the EU insist you have a choice of 
web-browser and they still insist you use I.E.!!!!
Still every cloud..... I don't do homework!!


Regards

Pete S