I agree on trying the live boot first. I played around with the live boot for a week, and ended up installing mint as dual boot when I got frustrated about not being able to save files, save settings etc. I was barely using Windows at that point.

It’s more like people in power don’t like civil liberties.

For me, God is a character stronger than me… Someone whom I call upon in times of despair. That’s it. No deeper meaning than this.

The progress bar itself doesn’t seem to be 99% full.

MS Office Picture manager? I have to use 2-3 photo editing tools to do the same job now. Also, powerpoint from MS office 2007.

Same here. I type a response, read before submitting, only to decide it is not worth putting out anyway. I only manage to submit comments when it is related to cooking.

There is a snack called appam made with wheat/rice flour, which calls for overripe bananas. For this level of browned bananas, you probably don’t even need to add sugar seperately.