Nice of you to pollute a perfectly good thread with your ranting then.

Anyway, back on the topic at hand. Yes, sometimes the updates in Red Pill mode will go OK, but I (and others) have had them fail rather catastrophically in the past. As the packages being updated change every so often, there's no way to guarantee success, so, in my opinion, it's better to recommend strongly against something that may necessitate harsh recovery procedures while providing (seemingly) little or no added features or bugfixes, than to throw out a Buyer-Beware and say that it could work.

But, since lacking complete information does suck:

It may or may not work for you depending on what packages are available at the time, you may or may not end up in a reboot loop. So, Buyer-Beware, attempt at your own risk, don't expect anything major for the updates, though.

first of, NP on the rant, it seemed to be something that needed to be said

I always backup before I try any daredevil type stuff on my tablet as I always have on the many different handhelds Ive played with for the last 10 years or so, thankfully enough the NIT backup just about puts you back where you started before you jumped off the cliff into the reboot loop abyss.


bhang

Part of the problem in a (quasi) open source community is you can install anything you dang want. It's not going to hurt my feelings any... However, at the same time, don't expect things to work as designed when installing new applications in the future.

This has got to drive developers nuts as they try to resolve bugs in new releases... I know it drives me nuts when I try to follow along in threads for new apps I have installed and people are complaining about behaviors I haven't experienced. Or worse, the complaints are so vocal it puts me off installing an otherwise fine application.