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The trouble with the *rr stuff isn't libraries, it's as far as I know all written in .NET, but system integration. Setting up users and permissions, starting the daemon, if necessary punch a hole in the firewall.

I, too, watched Linus' rant about diving software and that neither distros should be required to package random-ass applications, and app developers shouldn't be forced to package for random-ass distros. That's why we have flatpak. There may or may not come a time where such a thing also exists for daemons but it's not the top priority, also, if you're running radarr you're not just a random user, you're at the very least a power user. Random users direct their browsers to a website, click a link, which then opens qbittorrent. Which btw also has a rss feature. You don't need a daemon process to do all this stuff, I doubt radarr sets up a system process or whatever it's called in windows, either, you can do it as a user. The whole design of the thing assumes that you run it on a server, and, therefore, know how to run a server.

As such, two observations: First, that radarr is not a good example subsurface is (and precisely what Linus was talking about), secondly, power users know even less what users actually want than devs.