Alpine Linux

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2012–2024), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Alpine Linux, 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 7 complaints

Man pages are not installed by default, so the user must install docs manually2024-04-26
Package installs or upgrades often uninstall other needed packages, costing hours of repair2024-04-26
Finds the distribution very unintuitive for general use2024-02-01
Pasting doesn't work, forcing clumsy file reads and fear of rewrapping text2023-02-09
Hard to figure out which packages to install and configure for a working desktop2022-03-11
Alpine email client was difficult to use2015-12-01
Asks every time about drafts and reply-to-all, and reply-all wrongly includes the user2012-10-02