According to my personal guinea pig, migration from windows to linux is easier than adoption of windows 8.

Each time I see a documentary about mosanto, it looks like the future hell we must all fight to avoid in science fiction movies.

The Tape Archiver is filesystem agnostic ;-)

The best solution for windows is to start it as a fresh VM at each reboot. No problem of malware or virus or performance degradation. I can reboot windows without stopping my work.

Use ubuntu, create a guest account, install windows in virtualbox, clean the virtual machine at each login, data can be saved using a shared folter. When you have switched to unix way of thinking, all this becomes so simple.

it could pass so close to mars that is deviates toward ... earth

"When I received another virus-infected email at that same address this week, I posted a polite note on their Facebook page. ".
The address is now known by bad guys. You can not know whether the site has corrected its problem or not if you have not changed your email in your profile and the new address is spammed.

This net bsd documentation of sed is incredibly better that the one I have on Linux. It is almost perfect. In 5 minutes, I have found only one point of ambiguity: it says it is a superset of posix.2, but I do not find the possibility to use a dash instead of a file to mean stdin. Maybe there are others issues, but this is clearly a better documentation (should I switch to netbsd ?).

It has been used as a pretext for not providing correct man pages. For example man sed:
COMMAND SYNOPSIS
This is just a brief synopsis of sed commands to serve as a reminder to those who
already know sed; other documentation (such as the texinfo document) must be con-
sulted for fuller descriptions.

When I have learned unix, man pages were complete, concise, accurate and uptodate documentation of all the system. I feel that because of this textinfo mess, man pages on Linux are incomplete and vague and that the documentation dislayed by info is not very clear.

it will be fixed automatically with next automatic update ;-)

I fully second this. When I was 18, I was reading complex technical documentation in english but was completely unable to have an oral discussion, even writing english was very difficult. Now, I work regularly with foreign people (in english). I still find discussing ideas in english a lot more painful than in my native language.

Concerning translation of development tools, I prefer to have the tools in english, but I know people who really prefer to have them in their native language.

When I read the site http://www.winapp2.com/, it seems that you have nothing to be afraid of (Winapp2.ini is described as an addon for CCleaner, System Ninja, and BleachBit that is not endorsed or supported in any way by Piriform). IANAL, but my 2p advice is to keep preciously a copy of the actual content of this site.

I think that software seller should stop their EULA craziness and comply with good trade laws. When a society negotiates a license to use a software, it is a very different business than a usual consumer who buys a software or a game in a supermarket. Laws should be there to protect consumers. When I buy Microsoft Office, I own it, I have the right to decompile it to learn how to use Windows API. If Microsoft Office makes my computer burn, Microsoft shall be responsible. Of course I do not have the right to copy it and to sell copies, but it is the same as with any other object I buy.

I have learned linux in 92 on a 486dx33 with 16 Mo RAM and 120 Mo hard disk. It was really fun. At that time drawing a rectangular text window did not require and expensive 3D graphical card.

All the newer computers at my society have the win7 license sticker (because new computer have that by default), but they are all reinstalled with windows xp pro. I am pretty sure many societies have the same policy and are probably (I guess) not correctly counted in the statistic.