I've used MTP and my experience is it that it leaves a lot to be desired regardless of the platform. My wife's Samsung phone never worked right with her Windows 7 laptop. Neither my Huawei nor the HTC handset I had before worked properly with any of my Linux machines either.

I get the point of MTP is that is't supposed to be a transparent (to the user) interface but my experience is it falls short by a long way of achieving this in practice.