There are 75 contributors to Raspberry Pi Imager as well as a section on how to build from source for people wishing to help.Well it's just as bad now. I downloaded and compiled from the source code. At first when I started it up the interface was much different from what I'd seen before.It says it's Raspberry Pi Imager 0.0.0-unknown.
It didn't work either
I think it's difficult to create a cross-platform GUI Linux configuration tool that runs on Windows and Macintosh. On Linux an alternative approach is dd, adjusting the partitions, mounting the card, editing the configuration files and possibly doing a few things in a chroot or QEMU usermode if the host is x86 Linux rather than another Pi.
Given the number of contributors already, it would appear Raspberry Pi Imager welcomes help. There may not be very many with the skill to compile the program interested enough to help, however, you have already managed that.
Changes to the GUI are difficult because people have strong differences of opinion. At the same time, configuring the password correctly is likely an area of universal agreement.
I wonder what goes wrong in your use case.
Statistics: Posted by ejolson — Wed Dec 24, 2025 2:43 pm