I got the N900 went they first came out and bloody loved it, however the lack of applications for certain things, along with a random lag in performance on my N900 led me to Android. I've had 2 N900s, one that had the MicroUSB snap off the board the other being the replacement. I still have my N900 and am thinking of using it in a project. If a device similar to the N900 (being linux, etc) came out, i would certainly jump on it.

As a fellow linux user, and also a user of ubuntu, i can't see freespire overtaking ubuntu. Sure freespire might have the codecs and players all working properly out of the box, i find it would be too windows like. I like customising linux, instead of trying to make another windows clone.