Broadcom

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2023–2026), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Broadcom, 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

Newer Fusion versions missing from account; download blocked by pending verification for months2026-04-10
Auto-update broke, and the manual download path involves confusing navigation and account steps2025-10-01
Took an hour going in circles to find where to click2024-11-01
Registration refuses password manager input, then loops forever requiring an unavailable Site ID2024-10-03
Console app download requires an account and is hidden behind Broadcom's login walls2024-09-05
Linux app removed, forcing use of the web app instead2023-11-23
Chipset drivers on Linux are hard to get working and poorly documented2023-11-23