Yup, I also feel that way towards Windows (well, non-free software in general) and Smartphones, so I would also prefer never to see those questions. However, at the moment we would receive about a question per day if we merged, and at that rate wading through the cruft wouldn't be hard in the slightest — moreover, the questions will be properly tagged, of course. Anyway, thanks for sharing your thoughts on this.

A retractation: I'm no native speaker and thought the word "cruft" meant something different, not "trash, debris, etc." Luckily I just looked it up on time to apologize and retract it. I had no intention whatsoever to abase those questions nor to demoralize those who asked them.

For me, it's not about the difficulty of sorting through the list. It's an emotional thing more than a practical thing. The difference between getting a ping in my RSS reader twice a week and half the time it's an interesting item, and getting a ping in my RSS reader every day and only one in seven is interesting, is not measured in time, but rather in how I feel when I see that ping, and how motivated I am to check up on it and keep participating in the community.