This. I like it too, but I hate Google having access to all my email. No way I'm adding someone else to the list.

I also have a custom-built desktop with an overclocked Core i7-940, gigabyte ud3r motherboard, 560ti graphics, and a 13" macbook air.

I can sort of believe this... I get stuck for hours on a programming problem, but the moment I take a break and go out for a smoke I suddenly figure it out. (Doesn't work without the nicotine unfortunately...)

I basically subsist on beer and frozen pizza and I never exercise, but I'm 5'5" and 115lbs. I guess my diet and exercise regime is awesome~!!

"If you're the type to sleep through your alarm but wake up when the phone rings"

I'm an advocate of the lazy diet. Keep your cupboards almost bare, and be too lazy to go to the store to buy more food. Obviously, eventually you'll have to, but it's really easy not to eat too much if there's nothing around to eat and it's a major effort to go get food.

You only use pliers once every 5 years? Wow. I don't think I could go a month without finding something that needs some leverage.

Yep, I totally did this last year.

Would this apply to using an iPhone just for music? ...

Yeah I had one of those. It was awesome for the first week until the wood casing broke. I got a replacement and the wood broke again. This was under normal/minimal use.

I'm very happy with my Das Keyboard and my Steelseries Xai mouse. I'm an occasional gamer, but they look and feel great for anything I do.

If you truly wanted to sync, you could probably set something up with SSH and rsync. But I don't want to transfer all the files on my server to every computer I work on. Instead, I just use SSH/SFTP and grab whatever files I need at the moment.

VOTE: My own server on an old spare computer. Would prefer not to give some random corporation unfettered access to all my data.

I run Windows 7 but I admit I haven't monkeyed with the layout since I was using some program called WindowBlinds back in the day and got frustrated.

That's fair. I was thinking of the regular command line and Cygwin, which as I replied below, isn't precisely built in.

Perhaps, upon first install (or first boot), Windows could launch a list of browsers (and email clients, and whatever) a la Ninite which would allow users to put checkmarks next to what they want installed. Without any preference toward Microsoft's own programs of course, and not limited to only the most common of…

I have cygwin, and I like it, but it's definitely not built-in. I don't like the way it installs a virtual unix drive on windows, though.

I have Windows because I like to play games. I have OSX because I love Coda (and the hardware is pretty). I have Linux because I love it.

I love this. I've actually had less trouble and time wasted from Arch than Ubuntu. I'm definitely a new convert.

I just installed arch and I haven't run into any trouble so far. I first tried out Linux before Ubuntu existed and my friend gave me a Slackware disc. I had to compile the kernel to get my hardware supported. Compared to that, arch is a breeze.