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Originally Posted by SCION
You're biased right there by saying it's complicated. Reminds me of kids who have a fear of math and science because somewhere along the way people said it's complicated. Of course that would scare someone off. The NOOKcolor has a fail safe that makes it virtually unbrickable. Stop passing on misinformation. Just be silent on the issue. Geesh.
This is exactly why I rely on the Internet for my research. After that I go for a personal hands-on, declining sales help because I don't need personal opinions. I want facts. Then I make my informed decision from there.
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Rooting or hacking a device could not be complicated for you but average user won't do it. It will immediately avoid warranty if you have any issues later also and trust me, when working with Linux it's easy to make mistakes that are difficult to fix later. I personally feel comfortable working with Linux (all my home PCs run Ubuntu Linux, not Windows and have several Linux Servers running Apache and MySQL, with no GUI) but not all people feel comfortable or have the proper skills to revert things back if something happen.
Rooting a Nook can also improved or affect (for worse) battery life, because the normal Linux processes and CPU workload is being changed by the user, won't follow manufacturing recommendations.
Last but not least, say "good bye" to official B&N firmware upgrades. Unless you also opted by disable such feature, you won't be able to receive them anymore or those will break your Rooted Nook: if firmware upgrades tries to overwrite a files that does not exist anymore a folder that you altered some way, you will have problems.