Amiga

Raised as a usability problem by 16 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 16 threads.

People raised many different problems with Amiga, 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 16 complaints

Old computer games have keyboard-based controls that become unplayable on a gamepad in emulators2026-10-25
Mouseless operation via key combinations was cumbersome, moving the pointer awkwardly with keys2026-06-05
Couldn't find the 23-pin port by its name, so searches returned nothing useful2025-07-26
Too many options floating around, confusing for someone out of the loop2025-04-14
Undocumented RAM mixing and multiple video drivers make it hard to know which setup works2024-05-13
Hard to keep track of the different RAM types2024-04-05
Disk prompts keep reappearing and can't be dismissed2022-12-09
Starting and using the old Amiga is dreary, fun only for about ten minutes2022-06-12
Can't bring a window to front when its button is covered by another window2022-01-04
Node-based object model was confusing and documentation seemed abstract to novices2021-02-20
High-res mode flickers so badly on standard monitors it is unusable2020-04-02
Each application's interface differs, so users can't carry over how things work2019-08-17
No feedback while emulator and game take a long time to start2016-08-07
Viewer couldn't figure out what was going on or its purpose2016-01-16
Website never explains what the product is, so visitors can't work it out2015-12-26
Unclear where you are in the document and how far you can scroll2013-11-11