Minority?! What minority?!?!

I am a GNU/Linux sysadmin turned stay-at-home-full-time-3-kids-homeschooling-dad and I LOVE LOVE LOVE the N800 and I am, unlike your husband, a Debian-and-derivatives (such as gNewSense) for life person.

You should talk to your husband about his FC heresy and convert him to the One True Path of Debian and rescue him from RPM-hell (which I personallly know - I used to be a Mandrake person before I "met Debian and was saved" )

Getting him his own N800 would be the perfect fist step. Go for it!

Cheers,

VS