Welcome, users who aren't into xterm! I think it's refreshing seeing you speak out.

Did you notice what happened in this thread, though? Someone was talking about running into an N900 user who hadn't enabled the extras repository and then someone jumped in and said he never used xterm!

The two have nothing to do with each other, of course. You can enable repositories right and left without using xterm. And in my opinion you can be a pretty powerful user without using xterm. So talking about xterm is mostly what they used to call a red herring. In most ways, the same goes with people who say "oh, I can't use this thing, I know nothing about Linux."

Using this thing usually has nothing to do with using Linux. What it DOES have to do with is learning how to use the N900 by reading the documentation.

How many of you use Windows and are experts on editing the registry? I would bet very few of you understand how the registry works, but you may have had occasion to edit the registry anyway. How did you do that? You did know how to follow instructions very carefully. You didn't have to understand what you were doing, even.

The same goes with most of the pretty sophisticated ways of using the N900. You have to learn how to follow instructions if you want to do something really tricky.

One of the things that is exciting about the N900 is that it encourages you to learn more and more to get more out of it. You should take advantage of that, if you have the time. But you can do a lot and run zillions of very cool programs without doing anything harder than reading documentation and following instructions.