A question about interoperability.

I'm about to install the BitShares Windows client but I am very interested in the Linux client as that is my preferred platform. If I start with the Windows client and create an account, register it and buy BTSX with it and have them in my (Windows) wallet, can I later export them to the wallet of my Linux client? What's the procedure for such a transfer?

If not would I have to create another account and wallet and simply send the shares from the windows account to the address I registered with my Linux client?

List your gold for sale in marketplace, once you have a buyer and an agreed price and terms.

Contact an escrow agent,( I used cass for my escrow agreements and he did a good job)

Buyer sends BTSx to escrow agent, escrow agent confirms with both buyer and seller that they have received payment. You send gold to buyer, and once buyer confirms delivery of gold, payment is released to you the buyer,

Once you have BTSX you can buy BitGLD 

That's straightforward enough, except the part about choosing the escrow agent. You mentioned "cass", is that a user here? How do I verify his repulation? You may know him and have reasons to trust him but I'm new here. I mean I don't if I can trust bytemaster with such a trade (not that he would fiddle with such a trade), and he's the one  e v e r y o n e  trusts.

Sorry for such a newbie question, but it's a common problem I'm sure and probably questions like this come up frequently.

Your patience is appreciated.

 I'm a newbie, and I'm interested in trading some physical gold for bitshares. Not much, max 2 oz. I'm also open to a trade for BTC but my ultimate goal is to own BTSX.

Seeing how many scams are done through such offers & transactions, how does one select an escrow service? Where can such services be found?

Can anyone walk a newbie through this process and provide assurance via independently verified means the escrow will be neutral and reliable to both parties?

Thanks for any advice you experienced people might have about this.

I just watched the replay of the 8/28 webinar and was disappointed in the rigid method required to obtain shares.

I've been loosely tuned into bitshares since I heard Micheal Dean discuss it in his freedom feens program when he jumped off the namecoin wagon and onto bitshares. I'm very interested in the domain registration DAC and of course several others.

My issue is how to get involved. I really, really dislike banks with a passion and really don't want to start off in the crypto space with ties to the corrupt banking world. Bitshares holds the promise of total freedom of finances, but NOT if transactions, even if only initial transactions, are tied to the banks controlled by the oligarchs.

I suspect the answer I want is somewhere down the road, but I wanted to ask the question to be sure. A related question is when will bitUSD and bitGLD DACs come online?

I'm not looking to invest much, I haven't got it. But I would like to drop an oz or 2 (40000 - 80000 bitshares) into this if I can find a way to do it.