Linux Picks Up Where Windows FAIL!
I just wanted to share about our experience last night with trying to log into our Bank of America account. Ever since we moved (about a month ago) my wife had a 70/30 chance of successfully logging into our online banking. After you put in your credentials you’d get a “address could not be found” error. She contacted their folks and, of course, nothing is wrong on their end. So she did some research and other people have experienced the same thing. From her research she’s seen that the common denominator is… you guessed it… Windows Vista!
So; knowing that, we tried it on my installation of Fedora and I tried it with Epiphany and Firefox and BoYAH! We’re in! Just one more reason to switch from Windows to Linux. Linux can get you into online banking.
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:06 pm
FTW! Linux makes computing so much better. Glad to hear it saved your day.
June 2nd, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Call me paranoid, BUT with the constant risk of malware, I would NEVER do any online banking/bill paying on a Windows machine.
On a related note: My wife had Vista on her Sony Vaio laptop…..for 5 hours. She’s been a VERY happy Ubuntu user (and GIMP addict) ever since.
Power to the Penguin!
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:18 pm
For some reason we can’t get Ubuntu to install on our systems. I’ve recently gotten into netinstalls so maybe that way will work, who knows. But when she was using Linux she liked OpenSUSE, but I’m trying to get her into LinuxMint and other stylistic distros. She has a partition set for Linux, but isn’t making any moves yet. Oh well, I’ll just continue to be her knight in shinning armor until she realizes that Linux rocks socks!