Sold my Tosa SL6000 in preparation for the N900, and of course, had to wait months before Nokia got its act semi-together.

The SL6000 had a great screen, I'd tether it to my Nokia 6230 and browse away on EDGE/T-Mo through my commute (train & bus). That's all I ever used it for, but I used it heavily. I hope I do a lot more things with the N900. Too bad Sharp lost its Linux-religion.

I hated how in the Zaurus (later OESF) forums, everyone talked like you had to have been there for years before you were deemed worthy to understand. Postings used acronyms, and assumed a lot of prior knowledge. I never figured out the deal with the myriad distros and I never came across a HOW-TO in the style of the old Linux HOW-TOs, which were written to do complex tasks, but never condescended, never assumed anything, but yet were complete.

Unfortunately, the N900 experience is similar. I can imagine a newbie, all excited with their new purchase that they've read so much about, finding a pretty bare manual, finding only advertising on Nokia's site, and coming to talk.maemo and getting completely lost. Where's the prominently advertised help for beginners (and if anyone's going to write one, please don't make a link-filled wiki)? Any time I want the wiki, I have to do a Google search to find it. Does anyone read the wiki? It's just a bunch of write-only links and cryptic statements.