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

[Nathan Dorfman]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:31 AM, user1 <bqz69 at telia.com> 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

Just out of curiosity -- what bank tasks are you referring to?

I've used a ton of different (mostly American) banks and other
financial services over the years and have never had any kind of
problem using their websites from Linux, including: Bank of America,
Chase, Capital One, Citi, Barclays, Fidelity, Schwab, American
Express, and probably some others I can't remember anymore.

Now, I'm sure someone out there can find one or two things they really
can only do on Windows. Personally, I have a Windows installation in a
VM just in case this happens to me, and I haven't booted it since
2010. So I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that it's far from
the common case.

-nd.