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

On 2025-05-19 19:24, Frank Slootweg wrote:

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:
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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.

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

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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.

Firefox is quite popular and it works for me. It is open source and doesn't seem to have commercial ties (with some debates now and then). On the other hand, some companies might have a grudge with opensource, so if Firefox doesn't work, then use Chrome, which is proprietary and very popular, so it will work with those obtuse sites. Perhaps with sites with DRM protections.

   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).

Right :-)
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Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.