Tuesdays at the Polls: Have you installed a custom Android ROM?

In this weekly feature we want to give our readers the opportunity to provide some point-and-click style input on some of the questions we have been pondering. Got a great poll idea? Drop us a note!

One of the many positives of the Android community is the custom ROM scene. ROMs are independently organized builds of Android that have been tweaked to offer an alternative to the OEM versions available for many Android phones. Using the opensource code provided by Google, developers are able to build their own custom versions of Android and tweak features to their heart's content.

Arguably the biggest such ROM, CyanogenMod, announced this past week that it will become a legitimate company and will be available on the new, N1 flagship from Oppo. Many of us techies consider ROM flashing a novelty at this point, and can do it in a couple of hours, but I've had several non-tech friends ask me about them recently. Installing a ROM is pretty risky for a novice and many may not see the point. This poses my question this week: Have you ever taken the plunge of installing a custom Android ROM?