At the risk of saying "me too", let me say this: App installation sucks.

I'm trying to bring my new n800 up to the functionality my 770 had. Now, the 770 was running os2006, and the n800 is running os2008. It's a bigger, beefier machine, and so it should have many advantages. I now have lots of stuff on the n800 that the 770 never had. But things i had and still want include:

native C compiler. Can't find it. Don't tell me to use sbox.
gpecalender, gpetodo - doesn't install. I think it's some library. I recall tracking down a library on the 770, but don't recall how i got it.

Things i never had:
apache - doesn't install.

Some apps that used to work are no longer in the repositories.
Some apps install fine if you happened to load them after some other app that happens to pull in some required library.
Etc.

I regularly back up my data, but have not found a way to back up my apps.
For repeatability, i'm considering downloading .deb's to my desktop and installing them on the tablet only from there. Then i'd be able to restore all my apps after reflash. Maybe after my next reflash. The problem is that, when it works, it's really convenient to install over wifi with the app manager, possibly pointed by the web browser. "Click here to install".

I'm also, unfortunately, very aware of how a broken repository or app can screw up a system.

In addition to the apps installation being quite poor, there are some really poorly described apps out there. This weekend, i installed 'flite'. The install went fine. But i'd skipped it because the description said, "This is a port of flite for the 770." That told me nothing. But Google knows better, and 'flite' is a smaller, faster version of 'festival', written from the ground up in C. I'd never heard of flite, but i use 'festival' on my desktop all the time for text to speech. And, on the Nokia, it's a pretty exciting idea to be able to download a book in plain text from gutenberg.org and have it read to me on the fly like a podcast. Only, i don't have to store the audio, so it doesn't take huge amounts of space on my flash. There's currently no GUI, but i can cope with that.

This description thing might be approached in the wiki. There seems to be a section aimed that way, but with zero content. Should i start editing?