It not my experience at all. In fact it was the easiest install I have ever done. It knew I was using nginx as a reverse proxy and inserted itself correctly as a subdomain. The only issue I had was webmin was running on port 10000 which created a conflict because it also wanted to bind to 10000.
After reading your message, I tried installing it on archlinux, and here we are 3 hours later and I still didnt figure out to make it work, so I'm sadly giving up
