This thread goes to the same direction like the thread i started here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=48626

Why are there way more apps out there for android and the iphone and why do almost all of them offer a good end-user experience? I really don't want to bash the maemo developers here. I really like the N900 and the available applications. Rather i'm looking for similarities between maemo and symbian, a plattform which suffers from the same problems. And this similarity is... Nokia. Why is it so complicated for such a big company to work closer with the software developers and the community? Maemo is more or less a Nokia project, Qt belongs to Nokia and the N900 is obviously also a Nokia product. So why isn't there a one-click installation which sets up a development environment? I'm no programmer, maybe it's more complicated than i think?
Or is it linux? Actually, i'm a windows only user, but a few years ago i wanted to get linux a try. I installed suse linux and relatively fast i ran into problems with my ati graphics card. So i searched the internet, found some forum post and wikis. But all instructions were somehow incomplete and to difficult to understand for a newbie like me. So i opended up some threads on a linux board and got similar reactions like from bandora (post #4): "look here and there, if you don't understand this then first look there..." and so on. No one gave me a concrete answer to my questions. So i gave up und uninstalled suse a few days later. It seems many users only wanted to educate me as a linux expert by reading hundreds of pages. Not everbody has time for that if he just wants to fix a single specific problem.
Just my experiences with linux...