Coming from Windows and some experience with Mac, I have some huge peeves with Open Source software and platforms.

For example, I'm having issues with Canola playing videos and thought I converted them right. They stutter and barely show a frame. So I'm about to try the Nokia Internet Tablet Converter. Here is where my peeves begin;

Prior to that, I saw Tablet Encode, which on the page says "requires Perl and Mencoder".

WHY DONT YOU BUNDLE IT?! My first peeve. Imagine if you were on any other OS and it said "oh btw you need that before you can use this". How many users would it frustrate?

Another peeve is lack of documentation. Canola's site has nothing I could find about troubleshooting any issues, what video format/bitrate/size to use (I had to search for that and found info at Maemo.org).

And lastly, the fact that Maemo is being inconsistent with me -- I have to unplug the N800 from my PC in order for Canola to see the internal card. Why?

I've seen such lack of consistency and thoroughness in so many OS apps it's really upsetting. Don't get me wrong, I admire the developers and the apps out there but god damn