I had never used linux either, never even seen it in operation before I bought the N900. Although understanding what the phone could do as soon as I got it I loaded up this website, opened x terminal and started to learn.

I have now managed to customise my phone almost in every aspect and have installed many of the great applications developed by the genius people in this forum. Sure if i'm honest there was one point where the phone got a bit slow for trying to do too much but all I had to do was flash it and it's even more fun starting again!

As I can understand from what a lot of people said sure it is your choice if you want to have a phone with the ability to do so many things that you don't use. On the other hand it does seem rather pointless when a cheaper phone could do everything you want it to do.