Totally agree. I remember running into these same issues in ubuntu when I first downloaded and ran the wallet, and I didn't quite relay it to Zoidberg as clintar and others were around in IRC to help. I had completely forgotten about following up with devs on this.

Clintar also dug into the code to find out the correct usage of some commands, like connecting to peers manually etc, some of which could use some help with a little bit of additional documentation. This is something us mortals could also help with in github without taking the time away from more important stuff that the devs need to focus on I suppose