Buy the phone for the hardware and replace the launcher. Replacing TouchWiz with Apex works fine.

Of course, you can add solids and change the temperature or pressure. However that doesn't change the fact that the glass remains full. Even in a vacuum chamber the glass can keep containing low density gas.

The glass is always full. When you insert liquid into the glass you displace some of the gas, but the glass remains full of fluid.

I haven't managed to like running gnome3 or unity on non touch screens computers, and the classic session does not seem very classic. Gnome2 is still alive and well though (not broken just yet), I have it running here with some useful compiz effects. Just install gnome-session-flashback and some extras for compiz; compizconfig-settings-manager, compiz-gnome, compiz-plugins-extra, and you're good to go.

That's a bug, not a feature :-p

Not correct. I've used tons of Nokia's with Edge, later combined with UMTS and HSPA. First with Edge was back in 2004, the 6620: http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_6620-723.php They did walk away from CDMA, like most of the world.

Looks like 2012 was the year of Linux on the phone then.
Is Linux on my Android phone? The terminal emulator app seems to think so:
u0_a39@android:/ $ uname -a
Linux localhost 3.0.31-cyanogenmod-g7556d0b #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 13 06:45:01 PST 2012 armv7l GNU/Linux

$( ) and back-ticks does the same thing

Of course it has. It's called "add/remove software" in control panel. It's just painfully lacking in functionality.

Dear poor brainwashed windows users, in the free world there is something called Package Managers These wonderful tools makes managing all your software downloads and updates for your computer a very pleasant experience.

It's privating. And it's legal in Norway as well as Sweden. Sharing copyrighted and Digital Restricted Management content with friends, family, Linux, libdvdcss2 and ipod is all legal in a sane part of the world.