No need to be saddened by half of those. Most aren't necessary for full enjoyment of the phone. To this day I haven't seen the need to over-clock, and you're talking to someone who is more than happy to fiddle his N900 to death.

Same with Easy Debian. I'd rather just figure out how to compile Open/Libre Office to run natively on the N900... not that I'm of the skill level to do so, but I'm steadily working my way up. (Currently I've , compiled myself Aircrack-NG from the code on their SVN repositories, and a couple of other things like xdotool and that one change-r&d-mode-flags-from-device program Qwerty wrote.)