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Hmm I didn't know the UK was THIS bad.
I don't know if the UK is worse than anywhere else (?)
I'm in Canada and use Linux full-time without any such problems whatsoever. On rare occasions I use Edge instead of Firefox, and that's it.
Well it surely is much much worse than my country by the looks of it.
Which is?
In Sweden most government provided services are accessible through a web browser, but you need "BankID" which requires Android. Which is kind of Linux, though not fully FOSS.
But I’m sure the fact Android is FOSS had nothing to do with it, it’s just a random coincidence. It would simply be the most popular OS.