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.