CDE

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2012–2022), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with CDE, 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 4 complaints

Desktop interface feels slow and ugly to use, a downgrade from Windows2022-10-18
Hard to tell widgets apart and see where boxes are in dense interfaces2021-11-03
Resizing a file manager window freezes the system while every item reprocesses one by one2020-02-13
Slow and unhelpful interface with poor workflow; forced countdown waits on downloads2012-08-08