In people's defense that do post here with complaints, Maemo seems to be far too easy to mess up and the speed and efficiency advantages used to accept this caveat appear to have been trumped by Android 2.2 now. Maemo is even more easy to screw up than WM.

Maemo and the N900 are for mid to hardcore techs only, if you want to get good use out of the device and not worry about hosing it. The angle of "learn to use maemo" is not valid, since most people are consumers and just want the device to work, hence the device will see complaints when those folks do not buy it.

I love my N900 for what I use it for and greatly appreciate the efforts in the community, but Nokia screwed this OS up and provided weak support for the dev community. Their arguement that the N900 is a mini-computer is not even valid now, since the basic function of Flash can not be updated (a feature they touted a LOT). Flash on the N900 (unless updated) will be basically useless within six months- less than a year after most have owned it.

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Very ironic, considering Flash was a main feature touted and people bought into the premise. Perhaps it is still a mini-computer, but of the Apple type, since sans the Flash