There is an advantage if the DNS is lying to you. In France for instance, the
executive power is now allowed to unilaterally (who needs judges?) impose to
the major ISP the censorship of sites that are supposed to turn innocent
citizens into terrorists (and the list of censored sites is
Wine is free software. It is in Trisquel repository. VirtualBox is free
software too but the so-called "guest additions" are not:
http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/multiverse/v/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso_4.1.12-1/copyright
Neither GaBi nor
I would advise to separate /home from /. The default partitioning would do
that. It would also create a swap partition. You can then easily only encrypt
the user data: the installer proposes it. Also, you can then (re)install a
free operating system without touching those data (and then
eCryptfs is a cryptographic file systems:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem-level_encryption
Program files mainly are in /usr. If you want the whole file hierarchy
standard, here it is:
http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html
I am not very knowledgeable when it comes to networking. Cannot DNS server be
automatically discovered (and be those of your ISP)? If so,
Of course you cannot install Windows without getting a malware: Windows is
malware! You can consider that Microsoft (and who has enough power over
Microsoft such as governments) own all Windows systems and the data on them.
It is not hypothetical: the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
