My path is the other way round. Once a hardcore palm follower, but now don't fancy the 'pdas' any more.
For PIM apps, there are indeed some excellent choices, such as fltdj, jpilot, memo (requires python).
KO/Pi is great if you can bear the relatively long startup time but once launched it's very functional and useful.
Or for the nerds then Emacs planner.el or VimOutliners.
There are also quite a number of very nice notetaking and outliners/planners, such as tuxcards, notecase, immendio planner, sticky notes, xpad, FreeNoteQT, IQnote, etc. For financial management we got grisbi.
All these apps do load and run very fast. Speed is just not an issue for them. Still many cool desktop apps are sleek, neat, compact and elegant, if you take a closer look.
It may be a misunderstanding that zaurus does not offer a great number of app choices. Rather, we can port them all the time. That's why I've been trying to compile the ones I do find useful, and trying to share them with other users who are also seeking these solutions, at the risk of being accused by those saying "duh, compiling these apps is just darn simple; everyone can do it easily. Why bother to post them and waste web space?"
I am no big fan of the gnome's file dialog. So no comment.
Well I seldom play games, except a few simple ones like tetris and backgammon to kill time. I prefer reading ebooks. ;P
Yes I agree the choice of (small) apps for palm is its selling point. But many (or most) of them can either feel like toys not meant for serious use, or often fail to live up to the conduit/syncing ideal. The top killers, such as Agendus, Bonsai, LifeBalance, etc, all more or less have some glitches in the interface (ususally cluttering interface) and syncing. Remember usually the good ones means you have to pay, not a small amount really) and they are not open source.
My favourites remain the plain vanilla PIMs, a few das (such as damemopad), progect and diddlebugs (well I know I shouldn't have talked about this here). They are freewares but fortunately I manage to find equivalents on the zaurus side, and find these alternatives much more solid and reliable. And again no more syncing hell.
The only thing I don't really like about the zaurii is the lack of builtin wireless capabilities.
I often talk with many palm-user friends. What they usually perceive is a naive palm-IS-simple-and-zaurus/linux-is-overcomplicated dichotomy. But the more I use zaurus, and use it for real, big, serious tasks, the more I see its beauty,... and got hooked.
