[Asus Transformer TF700] Linuxguy1:
Maybe its just me, but I'm hating JB and Android. The TF700 is my first Android device.

#1, its friggin slow. I'm browsing with Firefox and its touch and wait. Its incredibly slow.

#2, you can't multi task anything. At best you can play music while you browse. That is it.

#3, everything is locked down and the apps are not great quality.

I'm speaking compared to running Fedora 17 on a Dell Duo.

As far as I can tell the Dell Duo (Atom) has about the same processing speed as the TF700 (Tegra 3). They both have the same RAM, 1 GB. The Duo has a built in hard drive, but I could probably fit Linux on 32GB and use a SD card for everything else. And a USB drive when necessary.

Linux is so much faster on the Duo than Android is on the TF700. I can have 5 instances of Firefox open on 4 desktops with a couple tabs open in each one. Libre Office works well on the Duo and anything else I need is only a yum command away.

Lots of the Google Play software doesn't really work well. I'm surprised.

Android is a darn clunky OS. I'm surprised at that too.

Example, I want to transfer files from my Linux PC to the TF700 and back, all via my PC.

I do this all the time via Bluetooth with the Duo and with my Nokia N900. Both of these devices have the obex library installed on them. Dolphin in KDE sees the devices and downloads an image of their filesystem to browse. Uploading and downloading is as simple as dragging and dropping files to and from Dolphin.

I've tried several apps from Google play that say they implement obex, but none seem to work. Ironically Linux has an open source obex library freely available. It appears that I would have to root my TF700 in order to install it. On a regular Linux machine its as easy as yum install obex. Or apt-get obex. Or synaptic.

Android's answer to obex seems to be Air Droid. Which works, but doesn't allow me to do anything with the TF700 while I am doing a transfer. And which you have to initiate from the tablet all the time and input a password into the browser client running on the PC. And dragging and dropping files on a browser is not the same as doing it in Dolphin, where I can right click, open a sell and treat the remote device file system like any other file system.

Example, I want to listen to a podcast while I browse websites.

I browsed to a podcast page in Firefox that had streaming MP3 links or iTunes links.

I don't have an iTunes client on my TF700, so that is out. When I right clicked (lonnngggg hold) the streaming MP3 link, it give me 3 options. 1. Open link in new tab. 2. Share link. 3. Bookmark link. None of those does me any good.

If I single press the link, it starts downloading, which is what I want. Only there isn't any UI feedback to tell me its downloading, so I press it 3x while waiting and the file downloads 3x.

At some point a media player starts playing the file. 3X as a matter of fact. But if I leave the page, it stops playing it, even though it has downloaded the file locally.

No problem, its downloaded locally, I'll play it locally. If I then go to Downloads in Firefox and select Open, it doesn't have a file association to start playing the file. It says it can't open the file with the PDF viewer.

So then I have to close Firefox and open the file manager and copy the file to the Music folder because the music player won't find it anywhere else. Then I can click the file and the music player starts playing it.

In Firefox in Fedora, I right click the link and select Open with... and select VLC and it plays. Done. It takes 5 seconds.

I find I can't browse my gmail account very well. I can't do anything on eBay. Amazon is out too. Again and again I am grabbing my Duo to do what I thought I was going to do with my TF700. I thought that Android was going to be this hot shot OS, really powerful, clean, fast, neat. Instead its slow, clunky, locked up and very poorly integrated.

Basically, I'm finding my TF700 to be a useless device due to the OS contraints. Anyone else finding this ?

I'm thinking its time to run Linux natively on my TF700. I haven't a clue how to set that up, the boot part at least. With the Duo it was as simple as getting to the BIOS and booting an install image. How does one do that on the TF700 ? If I ever get Linux installed and I want to go back to JB, is there a way ?