Gee, I'm really sorry to hear about your N9. The Maryland meetup was really fun and I enjoyed the enthusiasm everyone had. I certainly learned quite a bit. As it turned out, shortly after that meetup I decided to put my N9 back in it's box. Even though it is beautifully designed and this community is great, Nokia's support was basically nonexistent and I didn't want to tackle all the security issues that made easy Debian difficult to implement. I also felt burned because Nokia scrapped the version with the hardware keyboard which is what I really wanted in the first place. So for now I use the Galaxy Note 1 and 2. It's not the same as a "community centric linux" device but they are quite capable devices and the XDA folks have done some really nice work you can take advantage of. I had never used android before so I looked at it as an opportunity to learn something new. There are pluses and minuses to most things you try and there are certainly things I do not like about android. Most of that has been discussed here on maemo but I still considered it a good experience overall. Maybe I'll try Jolla or Ubuntu or just get a Note 3 next year. Whatever I choose I hope to have fun with and learn more, albeit at my slow pace...