Yes - I spent a large amount of my time trying to get the development environment installed, it is about the most complicated one I have used, and that includes the palm one which is awful, and many old PC sdks.

I got something that worked in the end after a lot of work, but most people would have given up long before that. When you do get it working and produce some code, then you are left with the hell that is the packaging.

One of the most impressive things about the maemo developer community is that they are managing to produce anything at all despite having to put up with this. Even before the apple SDK it was easier to write an unsupported application on the iPod than the nokia, now there is no contest.