Looks like I’m in sort of weird group of portable audio players customers as there is no product from any vendor to satisfy my needs. And this situation has been lasted at least for couple of years. And there is no hope to change soon :(

I thought these requirements are not something really exotic, are they ?

• User friendly & easy to use
• Great design / aesthetic look
• Ability to use it with Linux
• Support for OggVorbis
• Adequate battery life

I tried Neuros, but it looks awful and battery life turned somewhat to 2 hours which is not acceptable. But at least it has cool feature of transmitting the output on selected FM frequency, so I still use it in the car.

Nothing else meets that criteria … Creative, Emgeton, iAudio … nobody. For a long time the closest is Apple with iPod. No Ogg support makes me beg after sending mails & signing petitions:
APPLE, IF YOU CAN READ THIS, INCLUDE OGG VORBIS IN NEXT FIRMWARE VERSION,
PLEASE!