That will depend on the laws where you live.
Where I live, the employer needs to get permission to pay you electronically, and they can pay by cash, cheque, or direct deposit.
If you don't consent to electronic means, they are likely going to pay you by cheque. You don't need an account to cash cheques, it is just much more of a burden.
You are not required to put money into an account with a financial institution, but it does make basically everything in life easier if you do.
The hurtles are generally:
The feds should not be supporting private business by harming the worker.
Have you looked into Mint?
The linux mint forums make it seem like it works out of the box. I know that it worked out of the box for my Thinkpad x380, even the touchscreen, pen, and screen rotation.
by "client" do you mean "just use a browser"?
It might have been part of the divorce, selling the house and splitting the profits.
It's the same "we" who stopped saying "faggot" at around the same time.
Generally through lack of funding, especially in areas like healthcare.
Didn't we all stop using "retarded" like 20 years ago?
you missed the "!", so browsers parse that as an email address
That is part of the burden I previously mentioned. If you are being paid by anything other than cash, it is less expensive to just have a bank account.
Some credit unions will allow you to cash cheques issued from their accounts in person without a fee, some institutions will cash their own cheques with a fee, and your final option is the predatory loan places.