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 16:19, Colin Law wrote:
> On 14 September 2014 14:46, 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.
>
> If only it were true that having windows installed would solve ALL
> tasks.  There are very many tasks that are not solved by having
> windows (or any operating system).  If what you mean is that to run
> all windows software you mean you have to have windows then that is
> probably true.  As for requiring windows to access all websites then I
> for one have not found any websites that I need to use that require
> windows.  If I did I would do my best to avoid using that site, and if
> there were one that I absolutely had to use then I would make it very
> clear to the organisation running it that I was most unhappy.
>
> Colin
>
& use Wine browser anyway so fuggum!!!

Pete S


Note: This is not the answer MOST if not ALL websites will run on linux, 
some Flash-Player issues are to be expected, but hey flash is just 
throwing some death moves anyway HTML5 is the way forward!! (Googgle 
Chrome browser ships with a more up-to-date flash plug-in, that with 
some hacking can be linked to the browser of your choice)