Anki does something similar by telling Linux users to not use the version from their distro's repo and to instead install from the Anki site, citing misconfigur

Anki does something similar by telling Linux users to not use the version from their distro's repo and to instead install from the Anki site, citing misconfiguration on the part of distros. The problem with this is that all they have available on their site for Linux users is source tarballs which the user is then expected to build themselves, which leads to some of the same problems that come up with distro builds. I think it's legitimate for projects to not want to be included in distro repos to avoid problems with misconfiguration and the like (though I think it's probably better to design the project such that this kind of failure isn't possible), but doing that should go hand in hand with providing officially supported binaries in some way, whether that be via flatpak, AUR, custom PPA's, etc so there's always an option that is known to be built correctly.