The Swedish BankID curse and Debian
Lots of bank, tax and insurance related stuff in Sweden these days switch to using BankID for secure logins on web sites. They ditched the java applet a while ago and switched to a browser plugin and native application instead, which then suddenly made them forced to write platform-specific code to achieve the same magic. More here
And not too surprisingly, the Linux version was poorly made and is not supported and is left with a really complicated way to install it which no doubt will prevent every Linux-newbie out there from using BankID on Linux. Annoying and rude if you ask me.
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