Re: My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes

Carlos E. R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-05-19 12:02, Farley Flud wrote:

On Fri, 16 May 2025 23:36:19 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

So, the ?week? stretched on a bit longer than a week
<https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/my-week-with-linux>.
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Verdict: he could do most, but not all, of the things he wanted to do.

 
I could never give up Winblows unless I wanted to give up on-line
banking and shopping.
 
A lot of web sites seem to discriminate against GNU/Linux browsers.
Connections are not possible unless one uses Winblows.

 
I use Linux every day and I don't have that problem. I was just at my
bank a few minutes ago.

  Exactly. Except if one is using a browser with a very small 'market
share', any browser which has a substantial market share on Windows
or/and macOS, should be supported by all banks and webshops.

  So this would include at least Chrome, Edge and Firefox, which are all
available on Linux.

  FWIW, I don't use Linux (because it doesn't run the software I
have/need), but this issue would not be a limitation, if I would ever
want to switch to Linux (or macOS or ChromeOS for that matter).