If that's the workflow you prefer, then use the static workspaces extension. You can easily turn extensions on and off and make other changes with the gnome tweak tool GUI.

The requested functions are already mostly available via gnome shell extensions, allowing users to customize gnome to their preference.

Security questions are an opportunity for additional long passwords.

Favorite color: ALQbpFcWvvFiJlnEh5uuC0lpJZFHAvIcMuXrOh46L3bc24V39m
Where you grew up: 1t7jpfr7zzp87kOJTMOFw5qf1ReWKoxoeRu8U7vuz5TfPwypkU
First pet: gzcPme09nDYPHXvfvyi8FbpP9hX5cjqMiVi0MWd61sxyCIJjaG

Just use the prompt as the index for the key, which you've saved in your favorite key store, like keepassx.

Then they aren't change averse, and Windows is the right environment for their use.

I suggest giving showing them Windows 8 first. After that, the change to any of the major Linux distributions will seem trivial.

You should try to read the thread before you reply.

"The only thing my local storage is for is installed applications, and a handful of items for when I'm offline."

Even 4GB storage is enough to hold more content than your battery can get through.

There isn't a flash memory slot on a tablet or smartphone that will give you access to the petabytes of content you can access remotely. As a power user, I choose not to limit myself to the relatively tiny amount of local content a device can store.

I use WiFi only; it's ubuiquitous where I am, and there's no additional charge for it. I'll be switching to Republic Wireless as soon as they start offering again for the same reason. Certainly if you are in a location where cellular is your only choice, the decision will be different.

Because many people don't store information locally anymore. My tablet has 16GB, and I have a 16GB microSD. I used to keep a lot of local content, but these days I just have an sshfs mount to my home server for all my content. The only thing my local storage is for is installed applications, and a handful off items for when I'm offline. People are keeping information in 'the cloud' whether it's a personal implementation or a public service offering.

It needs to know how to probe and reference btrfs subvolumes.

This was a bug that was corrected (it was a problem in cache flushing). All my testing occured after the bug was addressed, and pulling drive data cables while actively writing, as well as pulling drive power cables, was part of my testing. No data loss occurred in any test. The btrfsck and btrfs scrub/balance were able to correct all errors that resulted following the drive recovery.

Yes, the patches (1,2) were merged back in May.

The normal installation on Fedora 17 doesn't support btrfs, however, you can use a kickstart from a Fedora 17 liveCD/liveUSB to install onto btrfs. For example, adding the following to your kickstart:

zerombr
clearpart --all --initlabel
autopart --type=btrfs

This is how I set up our desktops. By default, the above will make the root (/) btrfs, and place /home in a subvolume.

Grub2 (I'm using grub2-2.0-0.37.beta6) supports a btrfs root (/). I have two machines running that way.

No, just that I shouldn't try to respond to posts from inside the little box in my feed reader.