Well, that's life; it's just a happy situation (for Windows users) that Windows is sufficiently prevalent that everyone knows how to get around in it; when you get to a minority system like whichever UNIX, then only the people who know it tend to know it at all.

I'd probably be equally irritated with a phone running Mac OS (by which I mean the old one, not the one with UNIX under the hood; I can deal better with that...), for a while, then I'd pick it up (or chuck the thing); keep working through the straightforward stuff (like rotation), and you'll get it.

But for this particular issue, it's really complex; not only don't you know Linux, you also don't know Android hacking, which is itself rather arcane and exclusive; I probably could get it working, but it'd take a week to get up to that point, and it's just not worth it. Doing this kind of major hackery is not going to be easy on any device, unless you're a major hacker with some experience with the platforms involved...

One nitpick: I think you're misapplying N-series; N-series is Nokia's consumer (vs. E-series for business) line of smartphones. It now includes the N800, N810, and N810WM internet tablets. The rest of them run mainly s60, so I doubt it's at all similar; and the 770 (no N; not in the N-series) is also an internet tablet, and similarly complex.