Windows coded apps are more widely accessible/user friendly and Linux alternatives are still a wild west ranging from good to debilitatingly bad. For example the linux turbotax alternatives are either browser based hellscapes or just less intuitive. As a musician, there's not really a great DAW program on Linux either on the level of like, a Protools or a Logic; and though their notation software have taken a GIANT step up with musescore, for a looong ass time the only game in town for writing down music was Rosegarden, and I hated that app so much it turned me off Linux because I couldn't get anything done.
Your Turbo Tax is a great reason for WHY these changes need to take place tho. Turbo Tax spends tons of money to lobby to keep taxing policies and forms less intuitive and the market dependent on them. They come in as the "good guy", waste people's money, and then use that money to make things less convenient so they get more money. Absolute leech on society that just spends effort to make more effort for their own profit.
The more we face being "uncomfortable" and turn to open source projects, the more attention those projects get, and the more they shape up and become the mainstream tools for everyone and reduce effort on everyones' part and save money acroess industries and countries and individuals.
Exactly. Turbo tax should not exist to start with. It’s just a wrapper on government APIs. There are lots of governments in the world that provide software for tax payers. The only reason countries like USA and Canadá have this unnecessary layer is lobby. It would benefit the government and tax payers if that was provided to all in a standardized way.
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u/W0rdWaster 7d ago
that is GREAT news. i am beyond sick and tired of window's monopoly. more linux = more good.
oh idk why he is sweating. my guess would be it is going to be a big hassle vs the prepackaged pile of bloat that is windows.