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The web is full of custom Roms for this tablet. Of course none of them are guaranteed to work, especially without bugs. There are many that have several kudo's that they work fine, but you know how that goes. The Tablet is old enough now that it doesn't really fit what I want to do with it anymore. I figure if I can swap OS's, I can always go back to the original providing I can understand exactly how they work.

I've built Intel boxes since the 286 in 1984 and MS3.1, but I have NEVER been able to understand the architecture of Linux. It's like it came from Mars and I have to make it work. Everyone seems to think I should know what a tar ball is and which partition to put it in. I have loaded dozens of machines with Linux of all stripes and I can always get to the desktop and say,....What now? I can't even update Firefox to the latest version with it right there in the browser window. Why can't they just have a file named Android 4.1.exe and you double click it and go to the bathroom and come back with an updated machine? No, you need the proper version of Debian or Suse to fit an OS named Mint or Ubuntu, and the right program to extract the file and then it won't go to the place it's supposed to go. I feel like that movie with Adam Sandler golfing, where he hits the ball with a hockey stick and hollers "GO HOME, GO HOME", and it just won't go.

So,you're gonna root (re-image) your tablet while under the influence on one of the most historic and distracting days in recent memory? What could possibly go wrong?

FIRST! Forget about Linux. "One Click" and "Odin3" are Windows .exe files. Don't let the 'untu fanboys drag you off into the weeds.
When you see "tar" anything think zip file.
I have loaded dozens of machines with Linux of all stripes and I can always get to the desktop and say,....What now?
Are you sure you were at the desktop? Bill Gates and I parted company at Windows 98 and I've been using Linux (Slackware and PCLOS) for almost 20 years. I really don't understand that statement.