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You should REALLY be releasing these Linux builds as flatpaks or appimages. I'm pretty familiar with Linux and the difficulty curve for setting this up on Linux is VERY high with a number of rather esoteric dependencies, some you can grab from a package manager, some you have to grab via pip, some you have to make symlinks for to make them function right. As a result, the program is almost comedically difficult to setup on Linux for some people and requires at least a decent level of Linux diagnosis experience.

Flatpak is a format that exists for this very reason, you can stick all the dependencies in a sandbox and then just install the flatpak and go. It's significantly more user friendly and is also the de facto packaging standard on many Linux distros nowadays meaning you have wide distro compatibility.

If you're going to provide such a janky Linux version without very good support on setting it up etc, you'd honestly be better off just flat out not providing a Linux version and just telling people to run it in Wine via Bottles or something because I can guarantee you that's going to be significantly less of a headache for the vast majority of users.

PLEASE address this because in its current state the Linux release is nigh on unusable for the vast majority of people due to the amount of hoops that need to be jumped through just to get the dependencies going to the point it's just flat out not worth it for most people.

as a linux user, makes sense, but also, yap

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hi! linux development is hard as hell. i only really know how to use arch-based distros and it was never an issue for me and other arch users to install the dependencies, never felt "janky". i had no way to tell it would've been this bad for other distros, not my fault that i don't have time and resources to test with every distro out there, and also that the documentation sucks. also not very inspiring to see the "do it right or give up" attitude coming from the linux community yet again but at this point i should've expected that. i'll be looking into other packaging methods nonetheless

Honestly I am running viedotube mini on debain and it works fine. You just need to Google the apt get for the libraries and dependencies.  Though I had to download the last version of it because it was not opening the most recent one after installing all of the dependencys (except for one that tried to get me to figure out how tar files work), but I think that's just me being technologically incompetent.