Yea there is no doubt he is a doer more than a talker, but don't walk into his playpen willy nilly. If you are looking for secure encrypted mail storage the only person you can trust is yourself. Using open source software or at least auditable services is key.

...and if games really would run smooth and instant on tux, like they do on winblows i would instant switch over.

This has been discussed in at least one other thread. The plurality opinion seems to be: someone's experimenting with ways of simplifying the tracking of coins. Even if you normally only use each address in your wallet once, if someone drops 0.001 BTC into a change address you've never given out (but which appeared in the blockchain in a spend) it lets them tie that address to future addresses once you spend it.

Lucky? Maybe. Maybe not....

Yuck.  Nasty razor stubble.