Agree here. Installed the single-last version and it hardly worked. uninstalled it and a couple of months later I tried the latest one. Yes, it kind of works, but it remains an insult in my eyes to craft a beautiful machine like the N900 and than create support software for it that will only run on Windows. It´s like buying a Mercedes and then having to go to a far less knowledgable Fiat dealer for maintenance, so, yes, it may work. but even than it makes me cringe, hooking my linux phone to a Windows machine...

Follow robbie1st´s advice. Get a decent file manager, flasher3.5 and some form of SSH.

Oh. Forgot to mention the absolute stupidity of not being able to sync with my Evolution