Today I am over at my sister’s trying in vain to use Microsoft’s “Easy File Transfer” (*snort*) to move her files from an older XP system to her newer Vista. (I tried to talk them into trying Linux but the kids have games, husband a proprietary app, yadda yadda.) This is positively the most painful computing exercise in which I’ve engaged all year. Compare and contrast to rsync or any of a number of other methods in Linux for moving home directory files. A more honest wizard prompt might say, “Please answer the following questions however you please, since it’s not going to work anyway.”
