It's a shame the work of the OLPC kernel developers / volunteers who made the Xtra Ordinary distro possible don't get any credit. The "debxo" distribution http://wiki.laptop.org/go/DebXO has been going for a long time and has done all the hard work (i.e., XO-1-specific work) of getting debian to work on the XO-1.

Really? I wince at not having to type any uppercase to use pathnames which clearly contain uppercase characters. Madness!

I had horrible problems trying to get inherit to work in IE before I googled it and found out that it was impossible. This and http://blogs.msdn.com/cwilso/archive/2006/08/10/694584.aspx have left me in rather an unbalanced position when it comes to IE.

Another example of "unconfigurable" is file rename behavior in Nautilus. Click-to-rename behavior (like in Windows) was implemented once, but was later removed completely rather than making it a configuration option.

You can actually tell the difference between 25% and, say, 12.5% on that ridiculously small meter you get from the task manager?

Diigo (http://www.diigo.com/) is something I've used for a while, and found very useful. Google Sidewiki sounds a lot like it.