But does she want it as a main operating system or does she want to be able to work with Linux? In the later case, I'd say just run it as a virtual machine above windows. That gives much less issues with hardware drivers, and makes it also much easier to copy the setup to another machine if anything goes wrong.

I usually use C++ as "C with classes". No fancy stuff like STL or Lambda expressions. That works well, and most companies where I've worked use C++ that way.,

Whan it is about their phones, no one does.

Their upper class wants to communicate anonymously: http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

Big problem, easy solution: they make those calls because there is money to be made. Remove that incentive: make a law that all contracts due to robocalls do not require payment, the customer does not have to pay. The other side has to keep delivering for free as long as the contract.

That's a no-go for me, I definitely want adblock and tracking protection, and hosts file blocking can be too crude, especially against tracking.

At least in Europe, you get something in return for those taxes. It isn't wasted almost entirely on wars and the offence industry (calling it "defence" is just propaganda in the US).

Even if there are riots, they won't help. Police officers still shoot black kids in the back out of self defence.

So Twitter has made a choice and choose to be a US propaganda channel? Do they ban all those repoblican warmongsters too, who I consider far more dangerous for this plannet than some fanatics in the middle east? Or can they just continue to use their free speech?

If you publicly choose sides, don't be surprised when it has consequences.

Sounds like an adequate descriptionof the USA.

You don't need root to use F-Droid.

That has nothing to do with apps.

For iOS, most apps require the latest version to run, and Apple actively pushes developers to do this. When I check the requirements for the Android apps I use, most require Android 2.3 or higher, some 4.0 or higher and some very specific ones require 4.4, but that's SDFix, to fix usage of SD cards that was broken in 4.4. So for most Android apps nearly every phone is supported, given sufficient storage. Maybe some games will become slow, but other apps usually don't care much.

I think they still believe in windows phone and the one size fits all ideology.

Windows 95 looked much better than windows 8 and leter. Heck, even 3.1 looked better. This seems more like a 1980 design to me: it had to be what they now call "flat" because the hardware could not handle anything better.