Are you 75 to 95 years old? If not, that would explain why it is easy for you. I rarely go into a bank unless I have an issue, which is more common for me these days. I have checks that will not deposit with the phone app, because a signature clips the account number at the bottom. I had a fraudulent charge on a debit card that I have that has never left my home. How does that happen? A worker from the bank? Someone guessed the number? The issues for me keep accumulating, and I am a tech savvy Linux user. Imagine what someone 75-95 has to overcome.

People go to banks for human interaction. Elderly use banks for hand holding. Removing the humans from banks will be the thing that moves everyone torwards cryptocurrencies, because we would have no use for the middleman at that point. I always seem to need a human when there is an issue with the technology using the bank app for example, or some sort of fraudulent activity.

I like Mint, so this could be the new base.

My pixel has crashed once on the Google Assistant. Other than that, no major issues. I changed from iPhone because of the 1) headphone jack, 2) iTunes is a dreadful experience, and 3) Apple destroyed their music app.

Copying music became super easy with drag and drop from Linux and Windows, and the Music app works fine. What I hate about the Pixel or Android:

1) Google music app has no gapless playback? Really? 2016?
2) When connected to bluetooth, all audio needs to go over bluetooth. Apparently, the OS does not know to send voicemail over the car speakers. The iPhone did this flawlessly.

I still find imaging software the best tool for any Windows user. Just revert to an image before the issue, and 15 minutes later, it is though nothing happened.

I use no anti virus and have all my data on a separate partition. The image is of a clean installation with all my software.

No issues with Cinnamon or Mint 17.2. Everything works great, and I could not imagine using anything else right now. I have settled into Mint and Cinnamon since I like the interface and it is compatible with Ubuntu. Over the years, I have jumped around and tried different distros, but I have been with Mint now for years since they do everything right.

I tape shows on my VCR. It still works, and I am the master of the fast forward button to avoid commercials.

I am not interested in that game for free. I am so glad I did not download it. I may be tempted if they offer that CnC collection.

What makes TrueCrypt Convenient is that I can have an encrypted envelope that I can drop on a usb drive and then access it from Linux or Windows. I do not always want to encrypted a HDD or partition.

Cinnamon is very good, and much more dependable than earlier versions. If you have not tried it in a while, it is recommended.

I uninstalled all of the Metro apps. Therefore my Start screen is only used as a launchpad for my icons. I have boot to desktop enabled, so I never see the Start screen unless I need to launch an app that is not on my desktop. Windows 8 can be customized to work how you like it. I chose to make mine just like Windows 7 with all the performance improvements.

NoScript users like myself are prepared to only allow certain scripts when going to a new site.

Windows 8.1 can be customized to work just like Windows 7. 1) enable boot to desktop. 2) uninstall all Windows 8 apps 3) change file associations to desktop applications like Windows photo viewer 4) place shortcuts to frequently used programs on metro start screen that has NO tiles

ALL DONE!

I deleted my Yahoo account because of the static search bar and buttons that stays on every page and takes away from your viewable area of important things. Everyone on My Yahoo is complaining about the same bar as it really affects small screen devices and laptops. I completely gave up on Yahoo.

A new company name: Microsoft Mobile.