CachyOS

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2025–2026), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with CachyOS, 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 6 complaints

Dual-boot installation was an absolute nightmare2026-10-10
Three confusing, inconsistent GUIs for installing software; context menus nested five levels deep2026-06-29
Package management is completely unintuitive and the default GUI is poorly integrated2026-04-24
Couldn't extract or open downloaded JetBrains tar file, no clear install path2026-02-10
Unclear which of three config locations to edit; changes silently ignored or overridden2026-01-28
Has to retype password several times a week and can't find how to change it2025-11-30