7-Zip

Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2018–2025), in 11 threads.

People raised many different problems with 7-Zip, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 14 complaints

7-Zip's UI is odd and needs getting used to2025-08-14
Basic features take 7 or more mouse clicks2025-07-09
GUI and UX are terrible compared to WinRAR2025-07-09
Extract, copy and move buttons all unarchive; creating an archive is labeled "Add"2024-09-01
Must manually type archive name into extraction path and browse to folder2024-02-28
Frequently used options are hidden behind an extra click in the context menu2022-07-04
Big misleading download button is an ad; the real download link is tiny2022-06-23
Cannot preview images inside a 7z archive by double-clicking them2022-06-14
Users must download and understand two separate packages to open 7z archives2020-08-26
UI is so small it is nearly unusable on a 4K monitor; drag-and-drop and window resizing break2019-06-08
Its user interface is awful and worse than WinRAR's and PeaZip's2019-05-09
Double-clicking an exe in an archive extracts only that file, so it fails without its companions2019-05-09
7-Zip's interface is far worse to use than WinRAR's2018-10-22
Must manually set file associations in options after installing, since none are set by default2018-04-16