Reading your post history it seems like you are pretty unhappy with your purchase. Read mine and you will see quite the opposite. I had never used linux really before the IT and didn't understand it, now I feel really quite empowered as to my understanding of how the OS works all from learning with this tablet. Coming from someone who claims to know Linux I am surprised that you didn't know before purchasing that this was an ARM based device not x86. Even I knew that this wasn't a straightforward linux device and that it had more of a consumer focus. So to answer your question I feel far from ripped off with this device. Maybe you should purchase an intel based UMPC and install a regular flavor of window manager?